Question

Well this my java code that allows me to connect to the ldap server.

  public static Hashtable getConnexion()
           {

       env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
            "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
       env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ldap://localhost:10389");
       env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "simple");
       env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "uid=admin,ou=system"); 
       env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "secret");
       return env;

       }

thanks

Answer 1

If the LDAP client is standalone, it could be configured in several ways:

Use the UnboundID LDAP SDK LDAPCommandLineTool class and specify arguments to the program. For example, if the name of the class containing the main method was samplecode.MyLdapConnectionClass:

java -cp my-classpath samplecode.MyLdapConnectionClass --hostname localhost \
       --port 10389 \
       --bindDN "uid=admin,ou=system" \
       --bindPassword "secret"

The UnboundID LDAP SDK LDAPCommandLineTool class handles all these types of command line arguments automatically, for example:

• --hostname (or -h) for the hostname
• --port (or -p) for the port
• all SASL and Simple BIND arguments
• all secure connection arguments, for example (--useSSL or --useStartTLS)

The LDAPCommandLineTool class inherits a method getConnection() which establishes a connection to the server specified by those command line arguments.

or specify the name of a properties file and parse the properties file using Apache Commons Configuration or the load() method of java.util.properties.

Either way, JNDI should not be used for new code. Use the UnboundID LDAP SDK instead.

see also

• LDAP: Sample Code
• LDAP: Programming Practices