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JNDI API
Introduction
Goals and Design Principles
Overview of the Architecture
Fundamentals
- Naming -- The Foundation
- Directory Objects
- URLs and Composite Names
- Events
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- Overview of the Interface
- The Naming Package -- javax.naming
- Contexts
- The Initial Context
- Names
- Bindings
- References
- Referrals
- The Directory Package -- javax.naming.directory
- Directory Objects
- Attributes
- Directory Objects as Naming Contexts
- The Initial Context
- Searches
- Schema
- The Event Package -- javax.naming.event
- Naming Events
- Naming Listeners
- Event Registration and Deregistration
- Exception Handling
- The LDAP Package -- javax.naming.ldap
- Extended Operations
- Controls
- The Initial Context
- Unsolicited Notifications
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Configuration
- Environment Properties
- Context Environment
- Resource Files
- Application/Applet-scope Standard JNDI Properties
- How the Environment Properties are Set
- Modifications to the Environment
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Scenarios
- User authentication
- Electronic Mail
- Databases
- Browsing
- Network Printing
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Security Considerations
- JNDI Classes
- Security Model
- Access To Servers
- Sharing Context Handles
- Context Environment
- Class Loading
- Serializable Objects
- Responsibilities of Service Providers
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Design Choices
- Separation of Interfaces into Context and DirContext
- Separation of JNDI into Different Functional Packages
- Separation of Client APIs and Service Provider Interfaces
- Multiple methods for listing Context
- Support for Federation
- DirContext versus DirObject
- Support for Schemas
- Overloaded Methods in Context and DirContext
- Reference and Referenceable
- Automatically Turning References into Objects
Appendix A: JNDI Standard Environment Properties
Appendix B: Examples for LDAP Programmers
Appendix C: Legend for Class Diagram
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