Renaming Active Directory object

Question

Hi guys,
I have search all over the internet to find a solution for this, but I didn't find anything ... is there any way to rename an object in AD?
For example:
CN=my user name, CN=Users, DC=myCompany, DC=comneeds to be renamed to:
CN=John Smith, CN=Users, DC=myCompany, DC=comSo I am trying to change the CN, but I can't figure this out!!!
I know that this is possible because Microsoft has this functionality in C#
try
    // Bind to the user object to modify.
    DirectoryEntry child = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://CN=My User Name,OU=Marketing,DC=fabrikam,DC=com");
    // Rename the object to Jeff Smith.
    child.Rename("CN=New User Name");
catch (Exception Exception1)
    // If a COMException is thrown, then the following code can capture the text of the error.
    // For more information about handling COM exceptions, see Handling Errors.
    System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException COMEx =
    (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException) Exception1;
    Console.WriteLine(COMEx.ErrorCode);
)Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Of course there is a way to rename an Active Driectory object !
You obviously didn't search very thoroughly, else you would have at least looked up the JNDI tutorial in which you would have found context.rename()
Renaming an object is similar to a move operation as described in a previous post http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=628913&tstart=15
Again assuming you have an initial context, the code would sort of look likeString oldUserName = "CN=Albert Einstein";
String newUserName = "CN=Isaac Newton";
String ouPath= "OU=Research,DC=antipodes,DC=com";
LdapContext ouCtx = (LdapContext)ctx.lookup(ouPath);
ouCtx.rename(oldUserName,newUserName);