Access ADSI through JNDI ?

Question

Hi All,
Im a newbie to JNDI. Could you please answer to my following query:
I wanted to access the ADSI (Microsoft's Active Directory Services Interface) with the client java code.
I am aware that we can do this by using JNDI since a service provider is
availaible for NDS and LDAP.
So my question can I access Microsoft's ADSI using
JNDI? If so how? (I mean where is the service provider availaible for
ADSI and how does JNDI interact with COM interfaces of ADSI). If not, is there any other way I can access the ADSI using java code (I know that JIntegra has some software to do this).
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

JNDI is similar to ADSI in that it provides a set of interfaces and directory service providers.
You can access Active Directory directly using JNDI via the LDAP protocol. Here is a list of some of the posts I have submitted.
JNDI, Active Directory and Authentication (Part 1) (Kerberos)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=579829&tstart=300
JNDI, Active Directory & Authentication (part 2) (SSL)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=581425&tstart=50
JNDI, Active Directory & Authentication (part 3) (Digest-MD5)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=581868&tstart=150
JNDI, Active Directory & Authentication (part 4) (SASL EXTERNAL)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=641047&tstart=0
JNDI, Active Directory, Paging and Range Retrieval
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=578347&tstart=0
JNDI, Active Directory, Referrals and Global Catalog
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=603815&tstart=15
JNDI, Active Directory (Creating new users & demystifying userAccountControl)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=582103&tstart=15
JNDI, Active Directory & Changing Passwords
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=592611&tstart=50
JNDI, Active Directory and Group Memberships
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=581444&tstart=150
JNDI, Active Directory and objectGUID's
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=585034&tstart=150
JNDI, Active Directory and SID's (Security Identifiers)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=585031&tstart=150
JNDI, Active Directory and Error codes
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=578674&tstart=200
JNDI, Active Directory and Server Side Sorting
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=628857&tstart=0
JNDI, Active Directory & Persistent Searches (part 1)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=578338&tstart=200
JNDI, Active Directory and Persistent Searches (part 2)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=578342&tstart=200
Sample code demonstrating a search for disabled accounts.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=588430&messageID=3045217
JNDI, Active Directory and User Account status (account expired, locked)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=716240&tstart=0
JNDI, Active Directory and Authentication (part 5, LDAP Fastbinds)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=726601&tstart=0
If you need to access ADSI via JNDI (perhaps for some of the ADSI specific features), then other posts on this forum have suggested http://j-integra.intrinsyc.com/