Preface
After a maturation phase in the early and mid-1990s, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) exploded into the mainstream of enterprise and Internet software environments. Just a few years ago, only researchers and a few brave souls doing pilot projects concerned themselves with the new protocol for sharing and accessing directory information. Today, one of the requirements of any major enterprise-level or Internet-oriented application is to be able to use an existing shared resource for user information, authentication, and authorization, and nowadays that resource in a great many cases is an LDAP directory.
Why LDAP and Java?
The impetus for LDAP Programming with Java was the mushrooming need for accurate, concise, and complete ...
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