Websphere & LDAP servlet

[Joe Bond]

Does anyone have any introspection on where to start with a servlet using websphere to connect to ldap? Thanks in advance.
JOE

[Anonymous]

I use ldapjdk.jar or ldap40.jar of netscape to connect my jsp to Directory Server.
Sample to authenticate

import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.naming.directory.*;
import netscape.ldap.*;
...
    public static boolean authenticate(String uid,String pwd)
    {
        boolean status = false;
        LDAPConnection ld = new LDAPConnection();
        LDAPEntry findEntry = null;
        String dn = null;
        String MY_HOST = "MyMachine";
        int MY_PORT = 389;
        String MY_SEARCHBASE = "ou=People,o=wokup";
        String MY_FILTER = "uid=" + uid;
        
        try
        {
            ld.connect( MY_HOST, MY_PORT );
            String[] myAttrs = null;
            LDAPSearchResults res = ld.search(MY_SEARCHBASE,LDAPConnection.SCOPE_SUB,MY_FILTER,myAttrs,false);
            
            // more than 1 user matching filter, fail.
            System.out.println("getCount is "+res.getCount());
            if (res.getCount() != 1)
            { return false;}
            
            if (res.hasMoreElements())
            {
                findEntry = res.next();
                dn = findEntry.getDN();
                
                System.out.println("dn is " + dn);
                //prevent anonymous connections
                if ((dn == "") | | (pwd == ""))
                { return false;}
                //now attempt to bind to server
                ld.authenticate(dn,pwd);
                
                //if ld.authenticate doesn't throw an exception we passed
                status = true;
            }
        } catch(LDAPException e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.toString());
        }
        catch(Exception x)
        {
            x.printStackTrace();
        }
        return status;
    }
...

[This message has been edited by Pierre-Fran�ois Lemosquet (edited August 24, 2001).]