!!!Introduction

For [ages|https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86405], some people have desired an LDAP client sufficient to use as an address book. 

Such an LDAP client must have the following features:

*Create, update and delete LDAP entries
**Edit attributes which are part of the distinguished name (DN)
**Create update and delete attributes

!!Exiting LDAP CLients

* [Apache Directory Studio|http://directory.apache.org/studio/]: awesome tool, but overkill for an address book
* [Evolution|http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/]: great but only for Linux users
* [Apple Address Book.app]: read only
* [Thunderbird|http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/]: read only

!!!ldapservice

The ldapservice project provides a Java EE web application with a REST API for interacting with an LDAP server.

*Public SVN repository: [http://spacepirates.com/ro/ldapservice/]

!!!ldapclient

The ldapclient project provides and HTML5 application which is a GUI interacting with the ldapservice.

!!Dealing with Updating DN

*Edit DN: clone, change DN, remove original, insert clone with new DN

!!!Tools

* [Tomcat 7]
* [Spring Framework]
* [Spring LDAP|http://static.springsource.org/spring-ldap/site/reference/html/configuration.html]
* [Spring Security]
* [JAX-RS (Jersey)]