How can I access the LDAP with Java?

[Tom Hut]

Hello there!
I'm looking for a simple example for connecting to a LDAP server with Java / JNDI. For searching some datarecords e.g names and addresses.

I�don't unstand the api verry well, so I decided to ask in this Forum.

I hope some could give me a little help, cause it's important for me and my job...


thx a lot!

[pascal betz]

hi

sun has a tutorial on JNDI:
JNDI tutorial (there are )examples in this tutorial.
and of course
google knows more.

i think as soon as you have a more concrete question you will find lots of help here.

cheers

pascal

[Tom Hut]

Hi Pascal,

thanks for your reply!

Now, I 'll try the tutorial and see if it's working.

May you have a little Code sample for me? like in the tutorial, but just a complete and runnig code? which i could paste into eclipse and try on it?

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Welcome to JavaRanch, Tom!

LDAP and JNDI is a bit beyond the beginner topics discussed in this forum.

I'm moving this to the EJB and Other J2EE Technologies forum...

[Tom Hut]

Hi Dirk, thanks for the welcome greet!

I made some tutorials and tried some code and
now Eclipse gives me some Errors, which I couldn'T turn off.

Here's the Code:

try 
{
        // Specify the ids of the attributes to return
        String[] attrIDs = {"sn", "telephonenumber", "golfhandicap", "mail"};
        
        // Get the attributes requested
        Attributes answer = ctx.getAttributes("cn=Ted Geisel, ou=People", attrIDs);
    
        NamingEnumeration enum = answer.getAll();
        while (enum.hasMore()) 
        {
            Attribute attr = (Attribute)enum.next();
            process(attr);
        }   

got it from: Java Developers Almanac

ctx..... and process(attr).. create Error messages.
Maybe some import is missing ? or a declaration?

please help. thx