LDAP Chai is an easy-to-use Java LDAP API. It wraps low-level Java interfaces such as the JNDI API with easy to use interfaces. LDAPChai Includes the following features:

• LDAP Vendor abstraction - no vendor specific code needed
  • Password changes
  • Password expiration
  • Password policy reader
  • Error code normalization
  • Group read/write management
  • Account status (expiration, intruder lock) checks and resets
  • Normalized value reading and writing for date/timestamp, int, string and binary types
• Vendors supported:
  • NetIQ eDirectory
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Directory Server 389
  • Oracle DS
  • OpenLDAP
  • Generic LDAP
• LDAP multi-server failover support
• LDAP idle connection watch-dog automatically opens and closes connections based on activity
• Pagination support for handling large queries from AD and other page-limited LDAP servers.
• Pluggable LDAP API Provider support
  • JDK included JNDI-LDAP interface (default)
  • JLDAP
  • Apache Directory LDAP API
  • Access to provider if there is a need to bypass chai API.

LDAP Chai is well suited for business applications and general purpose LDAP development.

All operations to LDAP Chai are request/response (no long term iterators on search) so that fail-over can happen seamlessly.

LDAP Chai is available from maven central repository. You can import by adding the following fragment to your pom.xml.

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.github.ldapchai</groupId>
            <artifactId>ldapchai</artifactId>
            <version>version</version>
        </dependency>

The 0.7 update changes the API in several ways that are not backward compatible:

• Minimum Java level increased to Java 8
• The factories are no longer static and must be instantiated and have their own lifecycle.
• ChaiFactory has been replaced with ChaiEntryFactory (which can be obtained via ChaiProvider.getEntryFactory())
• Deprecated APIs have been removed
• ChaiEntry:isValid() was renamed to ChaiEntry:exists()