Baby Steps to Pro

Oracle Weblogic Application Server includes an embedded LDAP server which acts as the default security provider data store. There are few methods to access the embedded LDAP server. Oracle Weblogic provides an administration console for user to access it. We can create user, create group or edit detail through this administration console. We could also access the embedded LDAP programmatically. Using WLST ( Weblogic Scripting tool ) is a standard way to do it but you need have knowledge of Jython programming. Alternatively, if you want to access by Java language, you can access the Weblogic MBeans directly. However, this is not an easy task. You can see this link for more detail. In this article, I will show you an alternative way to access the Weblogic Embedded LDAP programmatically with Spring-LDAP. If you are acquainted with Spring, you may find this method quite easy and useful. In the following example, we do simple operation like search user, create user and add user to grou