ldapchai
LDAP Chai is an easy-to-use Java LDAP API. It wraps low-level Java interfaces such as the JNDI API with
easy to use interfaces. LDAPChai Includes the following features:
- LDAP Vendor abstraction - no vendor specific code needed
- Password changes
- Password expiration
- Password policy reader
- Error code normalization
- Group read/write management
- Account status (expiration, intruder lock) checks and resets
- Normalized value reading and writing for date/timestamp, int, string and binary types
- Vendors supported:
- NetIQ eDirectory
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Directory Server 389
- Oracle DS
- OpenLDAP
- Generic LDAP
- LDAP multi-server failover support
- LDAP idle connection watch-dog automatically opens and closes connections based on activity
- Pagination support for handling large queries from AD and other page-limited LDAP servers.
- Pluggable LDAP API Provider support
- JDK included JNDI-LDAP interface (default)
- JLDAP
- Apache Directory LDAP API
- Access to provider if there is a need to bypass chai API.
LDAP Chai is well suited for business applications and general purpose LDAP development.
All operations to LDAP Chai are request/response (no long term iterators on search) so that fail-over can
happen seamlessly.
Maven
LDAP Chai is available from maven central repository. You can import by adding the following fragment to your pom.xml.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.ldapchai</groupId>
<artifactId>ldapchai</artifactId>
<version>version</version>
</dependency>
0.7 Update:
The 0.7 update changes the API in several ways that are not backward compatible:
- Minimum Java level increased to Java 8
- The factories are no longer static and must be instantiated and have their own lifecycle.
- ChaiFactory has been replaced with ChaiEntryFactory (which can be obtained via ChaiProvider.getEntryFactory())
- Deprecated APIs have been removed
- ChaiEntry:isValid() was renamed to ChaiEntry:exists()
