I am a bit confused about ldap.
Is the schema the structure that I populate my data to?
I also read that you can store information in three ways:
1. Store the java objects themselves
2. Store a reference to the object
3. Store information as attributes
I am just trying to load data to active directory or populate the directory with data.what is the best or simplest method to do this?
I've been playing with the Oracle version OID, which may not be completely typical but, so far, the only objects in the system are stored as Contexts, including leaf elements like users and the actual data (passwords, e-mail addresses etc.) is store as attributes attached to the lead Contents.
Group elements contain an attribute which has an entry for each user, consisting of their full path.
I suppose if more specialised objects were used it wouldn't help with accesing the directory from outside of Java.
Each node is named something like "cn=Joe Blogs" and the paths are presented in local-first order, separated by commas.