Business computer networks employ the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, to distribute lists of information organized into hierarchies. To access a network's LDAP services, your computer ...

Initially known as a subset of X.500, LDAP has been adopted by the industry as its chosen native protocol for directory access, with vast global prospects. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

Spring LDAP is a Spring-based framework that simplifies LDAP programming on the Java platform. In this step-by-step guide to using Spring LDAP you will learn how the framework handles the low-level ...

This article is loosely based on prototyping a number of J2EE applications constructs, such as servlets, EJB, MDB (Message-driven Beans) and JSP implemented using LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access ...

All directories “basically serve as a way for applications to look up other applications, for people to look up other applications or resources, or for managers to look up reservations or resources,” ...

Microsoft updated an August security advisory this week to urge organizations using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in supported Windows systems to implement some configuration ...

Suppose you have an Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) server and a bunch of users, but you don't want to give each user a shell account on the server. You'd rather use some sort of central ...

Large enterprises often find that administering a single, centralized directory for all users is easier than creating accounts and passwords for each user on every server and application. To make this ...

Updates enable centralized access control and reducing operator eye fatigue for mission-critical environments.

Microsoft's introduction of ADAM has set the stage for a major shift in the way directories are used for application authentication. META Trend: Driven by compliance and cost, organizations will focus ...