Sample application demonstrating how to do the most basic stuff in Spring LDAP A very simple dao implementation is provided in org.springframework.ldap.samples.article.dao.PersonDaoImpl It demonstrates some basic operations using Spring LDAP. For recerence purposes, a corresponding implementation using ordinary Java LDAP/JNDI implementation is available in TraditionalPersonDaoImpl. How to use: ----------- The project is in a maven build structure. Make sure you have installed the samples-utils artifact, as this will be needed for this project to work. mvn jetty:run will start up a web server demonstrating the capabilities. The web application will be available under http://localhost:8080/spring-ldap-person-article/ mvn eclipse:eclipse will construct an eclipse project for you to use. Import that project into eclipse using File/Import/Existing Project, and select this directory.