How to configure LDAP for data access?

[Yan Zhou]

Hi I want to declare a LDAP resource in tc Server's context.xml, and refer to it in my Spring App.

I just want to query LDAP for data access, NOT for authentication.

This is what I have in Tomcat's context.xml

<Resource name="ldap/hubdirect"
auth="Container"
type="org.springframework.ldap.core.support.LdapCo ntextSource"
factory="org.springframework.ldap.pool.factory.Dir ContextPoolableObjectFactory"
java.naming.factory.initial="com.sun.jndi.ldap.Lda pCtxFactory"
com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.pool="true"
java.naming.provider.url="....."
java.naming.security.authentication="simple"
java.naming.security.principal="....."
java.naming.security.credentials="....."/>


This is what I have in Spring config.xml

<jee:jndi-lookup id="contextSource" jndi-name="ldap/hubdirect">

But this is not working at all, and I do not see error message, either.

[bvar]

I want to declare a LDAP resource in tc Server's context.xml

I am not sure why you want to declare your Spring LDAP context source in your server's configuration file. I would just declare the context source in the spring configuration file. Here is an example:

   <bean id="contextSource" class="org.springframework.ldap.core.support.LdapContextSource">
      <property name="url" value="ldap://localhost:389" />
      <property name="base" value="dc=example,dc=com" />
      <property name="userDn" ref="example user dn" />
	<property name="password" ref="example password" />
   </bean>

You might also want to create a Spring LDAP template that uses this context source:

  <bean id="ldapTemplate" class="org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate">
            <constructor-arg ref="contextSource" />
    </bean>

Now you can just inject the LDAP template into your spring bean and use it to read LDAP entries.

[Yan Zhou]

I'd like to avoid building these values in Spring configuration because they become part of WAR file that is hard to change.

Having these in Tomcat is lot easier to configure/change as we promote application to different environments.

[n99]

Hi
Did you mange to get this working as I can't find a working example......
Cheers