Mozilla LDAP SDK Programmer's Guide
This Programmer's Guide shows you how to create LDAP client applications in the C and Java languages to connect to LDAP servers. This guide also shows you how to perform standard LDAP operations. This guide does not cover PerLDAP nor other languages, however.
Contents
What You Find In This Guide
On developing LDAP clients:
On developing with Mozilla LDAP C SDK:
- About Mozilla LDAP C SDK
- Getting Started With LDAP C SDK
- What's New In LDAP C SDK
- Writing an LDAP Client With LDAP C SDK
- Using the LDAP C API
- Searching the Directory With LDAP C SDK
- Using Filter Configuration Files With LDAP C SDK
- Adding, Updating, and Deleting Entries With LDAP C SDK
- Comparing Attribute Values With LDAP C SDK
- LDAP URLs With LDAP C SDK
- Getting Server Information With LDAP C SDK
- SSL Connections With LDAP C SDK
- Controls With LDAP C SDK
- SASL Authentication With LDAP C SDK
- Extended Operations With LDAP C SDK
- Writing Multithreaded Clients With LDAP C SDK
Mozilla LDAP C SDK Reference:
On developing with Mozilla LDAP Java SDK:
- Getting Started With LDAP Java SDK
- Writing an LDAP Client With LDAP Java SDK
- Using the LDAP Java Classes
- Searching the Directory With LDAP Java SDK
- Using Filter Configuration Files With LDAP Java SDK
- Adding, Updating, and Deleting Entries With LDAP Java SDK
- Comparing Attribute Values With LDAP Java SDK
- LDAP URLs With LDAP Java SDK
- Getting Server Information With LDAP Java SDK
- SSL Connections With LDAP Java SDK
- LDAP Controls With LDAP Java SDK
- SASL Authentication With LDAP Java SDK
- Extended Operations With LDAP Java SDK
- Writing Asynchronous Clients With LDAP Java SDK
Mozilla LDAP Java SDK API Specification:
- TODO - Link to Mozilla Java SDK Javadoc
- Netscape Directory SDK for Java: Source Code Documentation
Who Should Use This Guide
This guide is intended for developers creating directory client applications.
- Directory Server functionality
- Developing programs in the C programming language or the JavaTM programming language
- Specifications for LDAP and related protocols, such as DSML v2
- Internet and World Wide Web technologies
Before You Read This Guide
Before developing directory client applications, install the LDAP C SDK, or the LDAP Java SDK.
Additional Recommended Reading
- LDAP Programming with Java by Weltman and Dabhura (ISBN 0-201-65758-96)
- LDAP Programming, Management and Integration by Donley (ISBN 1930110405)
- LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol by Howes and Smith (ISBN 1-57870-000-00)
- Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services by Howes, et al. (ISBN 1-57870-070-10)
- RFC 2251, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)
- RFC 2252, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions
- RFC 2253, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names
- RFC 2254, The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
- RFC 2255, The LDAP URL Format
- RFC 2256, A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3
- RFC 2829, Authentication Methods for LDAP
- RFC 2830, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security
- RFC 2849, The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification
- RFC 3377, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Technical Specification
Related Reading
The SLAMD Distributed Load Generation Engine (SLAMD) is a Java application that is designed to stress test and analyze the performance of network-based applications. It was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. to benchmark and analyze the performance of LDAP directory servers. SLAMD is available as an open source application under the Sun Public License, an OSI-approved open source license. To obtain information about SLAMD, go to http://www.slamd.com/. SLAMD is also available as a java.net project. See https://slamd.dev.java.net/.
Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) technology supports accessing the Directory Server using LDAP and DSML v2 from Java applications. For information about JNDI, see http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/. The JNDI Tutorial contains detailed descriptions and examples of how to use JNDI. This tutorial is at http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/.
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