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| /** | |
| * | |
| * Extends the {@code javax.naming} package to provide functionality | |
| * for accessing directory services. | |
| * | |
| * <p> | |
| * This package defines the directory operations of the Java Naming and | |
| * Directory Interface (JNDI). | |
| * JNDI provides naming and directory functionality to applications | |
| * written in the Java programming language. It is designed to be | |
| * independent of any specific naming or directory service | |
| * implementation. Thus a variety of services--new, emerging, and | |
| * already deployed ones--can be accessed in a common way. | |
| * | |
| * <p> | |
| * This package allows applications to retrieve and update attributes | |
| * associated with objects stored in a directory, and to search for | |
| * objects using specified attributes. | |
| * | |
| * <h2>The Directory Context</h2> | |
| * | |
| * The {@code DirContext} | |
| * interface represents a <em>directory context</em>. | |
| * It defines methods for examining and updating attributes associated with a | |
| * <em>directory object</em>, or <em>directory entry</em> as it is sometimes | |
| * called. | |
| * <p> | |
| * You use {@code getAttributes()} to retrieve the attributes | |
| * associated with a directory object (for which you supply the name). | |
| * Attributes are modified using {@code modifyAttributes()}. | |
| * You can add, replace, or remove attributes and/or attribute values | |
| * using this operation. | |
| * <p> | |
| * {@code DirContext} also behaves as a naming context | |
| * by extending the {@code Context} interface in the {@code javax.naming} package. | |
| * This means that any directory object can also provide | |
| * a naming context. | |
| * For example, the directory object for a person might contain | |
| * the attributes of that person, and at the same time provide | |
| * a context for naming objects relative to that person | |
| * such as his printers and home directory. | |
| * | |
| * <h3>Searches</h3> | |
| * {@code DirContext} contains methods for | |
| * performing content-based searching of the directory. | |
| * In the simplest and most common form of usage, the application | |
| * specifies a set of attributes--possibly with specific | |
| * values--to match, and submits this attribute set, to the | |
| * {@code search()} method. | |
| * There are other overloaded forms of {@code search()} | |
| * that support more sophisticated <em>search filters</em>. | |
| * | |
| * | |
| * <h2>Package Specification</h2> | |
| * | |
| * The JNDI API Specification and related documents can be found in the | |
| * {@extLink jndi_overview JNDI documentation}. | |
| * | |
| * @since 1.3 | |
| */ | |
| package javax.naming.directory; |