Enterprise applications and mobile applications have quite different requirements. Starting an enterprise application is just something you do once before it continue running for months or years. On the other side of the spectrum most mobile applications seldom runs for more than minutes, run by a bored users standing in line or riding the bus. [...]

The directory servers of today are packed with a lot of nice features, one of them being Referential Integrity which performs integrity updates on attributes like member, uniqueMember, owner etc. Simpler put, when an entry updates its distinguished name, all references using the old distinguished name get updated to the new one.
However, there can be [...]

It’s with great pleasure that we can now finally announce the final 1.3.0 version of Spring LDAP. It’s been a while since we’ve made a major release, but there’s quite a bit in this one to make up for it. Among the highlights of this release are the improvements in the authentication area, which is [...]

We recently released Spring LDAP 1.3.0.RC1. This long awaited release contains a number of new features and bug fixes. In this post I’ll highlight some of the changes, pointing out some of my favorite Spring LDAP features.
Simple Authentication Mechanism
By far the most requested feature for inclusion in Spring LDAP has been the ability to easily [...]

In a recent post I wrote about the particular problems we’ve been having with integration testing the Spring LDAP project and the use we’ve made of Amazon EC2 for solving these problems. In this post I’ll present the implementation details.
Prerequisites
In order to keep this reasonably brief I’ll have to refer to the getting started guide [...]

One of the major challenges we’ve been facing in the Spring LDAP project is to make certain that the library works together with different LDAP servers. Different servers behave differently in certain situations; some functionality might only be supported on select servers, etc. In the ideal situation we would run our automated test suite against [...]

The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is for LDAP programming what Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is for SQL programming. There are several similarities between JDBC and JNDI/LDAP (Java LDAP). Despite being two completely different APIs with different pros and cons, they share a number of less flattering characteristics:

They require extensive plumbing code, even [...]