About

A (Servlet 3.0) web application that provides an interface to do some basic querying of an LDAP server. The major technologies used are:

• Spring Security (version 3.2.0)
• Spring MVC (version 4.0.0)
• Spring LDAP (version 1.3.2)

Efforts have been made to use only the Java/Annotation configuration so there are no Spring XML files. There is also no web.xml file.

Prerequisites

• Download and install Java 7.
• Download the latest Maven.
• Download and install the latest ApacheDS.

Get Started

• ldap-connection.properties should be modified to have the correct values for your LDAP server.
• From this folder type mvn install. This will (also) build the war file that you can deploy to an application server.
• Alternatively, you can build and run the application with Tomcat 7 by typing mvn tomcat7:run without having to install Tomcat. (Same for Jetty by running mvn jetty:run)
• Access the application on http://localhost:8080/ldap-ui/.
• You can log in with user/password or admin/password.

TODO

Generic Functional

• Log in and Logout capabilities.
• Menu bar for easy navigation to different parts of the application.
• The ability to view (or even change) LDAP connection details.

LDAP Functional

• Check that a user can bind, given a username and password
• status of user
• verify password of user
• list roles of a user
• list attributes of a user node
• list organisations
• list sub-organisations within an organisation
• list attributes of an organisation node
• list users and their roles in an organisation
• list users in an organisation and its suborganisations
• Reset user status and password

References/Useful links

• Novell LDAP examples and documentation.
• Spring Security tutorial and also Designing and Implementing a Web Application with Spring part 6.
• Documentation for Spring LDAP.