Requirements

jLDAPBeans is being developed using the J2SE 5.0 because it uses many of the improvements included in this new release of the Java Virtual Machine like Annotations and Generics.

While java Generics are not deeply supported, java Annotations are required to write any LDAP bean.

Writing Beans

Writing a simple bean

Writing LDAP beans are as easy to write than any other bean with the particularity that must extend the net.sf.jldapbeans.commons.Top clas and use jLDAPBean Annotations that will identify its objectClass and its attributes. Here is an example:

...
import net.sf.jldapbeans.commons.Top;
import net.sf.jldapbeans.lang.annotation.*;
...

@LdapBean
public interface Organization extends Top {
	...
	
	@LdapAttribute
	public List getOrganizationName();
	
	public void setOrganizationName(List value);
	
	...
	
}

This is an example of a simple bean for the example objectClass that has one attribute which responds to exampleName and which is SINGLE-VALUE and has not any required attributes.