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+Sample application demonstrating the very basics in Spring LDAP
+A basic data access class for manipulating a person entry is located at:
+org.springframework.ldap.samples.article.dao.PersonDaoImpl
+For comparison, a corresponding implementation using traditional JNDI programming is provided in:
+org.springframework.ldap.samples.article.dao.TraditionalPersonDaoImpl
+
+To verify the functionality, start the sample webapp using
+mvn jetty:run
+and navigate to http://localhost:8080/spring-ldap-person-article/showTree.do