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Asked: 2026-06-04T17:54:58+00:00

I am trying to build a web application that will use an LDAP server

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I am trying to build a web application that will use an LDAP server on an Apache Tomcat 7.0 . Looking over the internet i have not find sufficient articles to justify why use one rather another server.

So I have turned to the more experienced guys here that have sufficient experience with more than one LDAP server.

My requirements are: To be free, easy to install and use (good gui) and sufficient API’s so that i will be able to insert users, groups, perform lookups etc from a java based application. It should also provide a good level of security.

Thank you in advance for your attention

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  1. Editorial Team

    I will recommend going with openLDAP as server, UnboundID as LDAP SDK, JXPlorer or ApacheDirectoryStuido as GUI control over the ldap – this covers probably all of your requirements.

    All of the above software is free:

    • openLDAP is probably the widely used LDAP server, if you don’t count ActiveDirectory. It’s well documented and can be easily supported.

    • the UnboundID lib is the best I have experience with, and in my opinion – most friendly and feature rich lib for LDAP out there at this moment. Check out this feature comparison matrix.

    • the UI tools differ in complexity – JXplorer is the simpler one.

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