Light weight Java API for LDAP

Question

I would like to validate username and password for my new open source Java project using LDAP(Iplanet or Open DS), despite of validating against database.

Primary activities i would like to do are: 1) Validate userName and password 2) Add a user or Group to directoy server 3) Assigning a user to a Group.

Any light weight Java API, that provides quick learning curve.

Answer 1

I have a good experience with UnboundID LDAP SDK . It is just a single jar , has a good documentation , very user-friendly API , and a lot of advantages when compared to the JNDI .

I especially like its ORM framework which can easily map a LDAP record to a Java object .