LDAP Programming with Java™

Mirroring an Organizational Structure

When designing a directory structure for an organization, the first thing that comes to mind is to represent each division, department, and other organizational unit in the tree as a directory entry and to place each person entry under the department to which the person belongs. A division entry might have many department entries as child nodes, and a department entry might have additional department entries and/or individual person entries underneath it.

The directory structure maps exactly to the structure of the organization, and the DN of a person entry describes the full chain of the person's affiliation in the organization. The structure of a particular directory content is often called a Directory ...