Big Ten Example

The original intent of the LDAP specification was to create a lightweight version of the cumbersome X.500 standard to answer the need for central phone directories. In that vein, many academic institutions host public LDAP databases with contact information for their staff and students. In this example, you can use the LDAPHttp Gateway retrieve servlet to query databases at a few Big Ten schools.

Penn State University

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

LDAPHttp fits between you and the directory database, translating both your requests for the directory server and its responses for your browser. It may help to have a basic explanation of all the pieces and steps that are involved.

The Big Picture

The functionality for this application is extremely simple, and so is the software. View all of the source code for this application in classes and properties files.

com.mentata.l3d.psu.context
com.mentata.examples.psu.person
com.mentata.examples.psu.person_label
com.mentata.examples.psu.person_label_es

com.mentata.l3d.umich.context
com.mentata.examples.umich.person
com.mentata.examples.umich.person_label
com.mentata.examples.umich.group
com.mentata.examples.umich.group_label

com.mentata.l3d.nwu.context
com.mentata.examples.nwu.person
com.mentata.examples.nwu.person_label

com.mentata.l3d.umn.context