QOLdap : Introduction

QOLdap is an Elcipse plugin witch integrate a LDAP Browser into Eclipse.

LDAP or “Lightweight Directory Access Protocol” is a industry standard which allow access and modify a directory information. A directory is information about objects, order, with details about each object. A directory is a special data base type optimized to read, search and browser operations.

LDAP is a protocol to access to directories more popular actually. LDAP present the data base information as a tree, the tree has nodes calls Entries, the entries have Attributes and the attributes have Values. Each Entry in a directory is identified by a unique name, a DN (Distinguished Name).

QOLdap is a Plugin, which integrate in the Eclipse GUI a browser to navigate in a LDAP directory.

A image of QOLDAP interfaz is: