Re: java API for openldap

[Brandon McCombs <bmccombs@ma.rr.com>]

I just wanted to thank those who helped with this topic.  I used the 
novell java LDAP API and somehow despite very similar class/method names 
to netscape's API it was enough to get all the results back that I 
wanted from the openLDAP schema. I even got it done within a few hours 
time because it was so similar to the netscape API.  (Although I'm 
missing content rules, name forms, and structure rules but I presume 
there aren't any that exist by default).

Brandon

Marc Boorshtein wrote:
> Brandon,
>
> JNDI is built into Java, where as JLDAP is an external library.  JNDI
> is actually and abstraction layer for different directory APIs
> (including DNS, NIS and a few others) where as JLDAP is an LDAP
> specific API (though it does support some web services as well).  I
> personally feel JLDAP is simpler then JNDI.
>
> LDAP is a protocol, with OpenLDAP being a "database" that implements
> that protocol and uses it to communicate with clients.  This being the
> case, both libraries can communicate with either OpenLDAP or any other
> LDAPv3 server (though as Kurt says, anything non-standard will cause
> your mileage to vary).  Additionally, there are APIs out there to
> simplify both JNDI and JLDAP.  One of them is the JDBC-LDAP bridge
> (also an OpenLDAP project) which lets you work with LDAP servers using
> SQL.  It ultimatly depends on what type of application you are
> writing.
>
> Marc