From cf9f9ab000faa0ee048e5f46a5f7598b19f23e38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Cummings <3627351+jzheaux@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:11:42 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Polish Converter Documentation

Added details about Spring Boot support.

Issue gh-633
---
 modules/ROOT/pages/odm.adoc | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/odm.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/odm.adoc
index 6131e887..4170ab94 100644
--- a/modules/ROOT/pages/odm.adoc
+++ b/modules/ROOT/pages/odm.adoc
@@ -19,7 +19,15 @@ The Spring LDAP project offers a similar ability with respect to LDAP directorie
 
 `LdapTemplate` constructs a default `ObjectDirectoryMapper` which typically renders additional configuration unnecessary.
 
-However, you can also make `ObjectDirectoryMapper` available as a `@Bean` by importing `ObjectDirectoryMapperConfiguration` like so:
+=== Converters with Boot
+
+`ObjectDirectoryMapper` supports `ConversionService` which allows you to specify customer ``Converter``s for mapping between Java and LDAP.
+
+When you are using Spring Boot, you can simply publish a `Converter` as you would normally and the `ObjectDirectoryMapper` bean that Boot provides will pick them up.
+
+=== Converters without Boot
+
+You can also make `ObjectDirectoryMapper` available as a `@Bean` by importing `ObjectDirectoryMapperConfiguration` like so:
 
 [source,java]
 ----
@@ -42,9 +50,7 @@ LdapTemplate ldapTemplate(ContextSource contextSource, ObjectDirectoryMapper odm
 }
 ----
 
-Using this import provides the benefit that it will automatically configure `ObjectDirectoryMapper` with the `ConversionService` in the `ApplicationContext`.
-
-This means that Spring LDAP will use your configured `Converter` instances.
+Doing so will make so that Spring LDAP will use your configured `Converter` instances.
 
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