Spring LDAP is a Java library for simplifying LDAP
operations, based on the pattern of Spring's JdbcTemplate. The
framework relieves the user of common chores, such as looking up and
closing contexts, looping through results, encoding/decoding values
and filters, and more. The LdapTemplate class encapsulates all the
plumbing work involved in traditional LDAP programming, such as
creating a DirContext, looping through NamingEnumerations, handling
exceptions and cleaning up resources. This leaves the programmer to
handle the important stuff - where to find data (DNs and Filters) and
what do do with it (map to and from domain objects, bind, modify,
unbind, etc.), in the same way that JdbcTemplate relieves the
programmer of all but the actual SQL and how the data maps to the
domain model. In addition to this, Spring LDAP provides transaction
support, a pooling library, exception translation from
NamingExceptions to a mirrored unchecked Exception hierarchy, as well
as several utilities for working with filters, LDAP paths and
Attributes.