Chapter 12. Object-Directory Mapping (ODM)

Table of Contents

Introduction
OdmManager
Annotations
Type Conversion
Execution

Introduction

Relational mapping frameworks like Hibernate and JPA have offered developers the ability to use annotations to map database tables to Java objects for some time. The Spring Framework LDAP project now offers the same ability with respect to directories through the use of the org.springframework.ldap.odm package (sometimes abbreviated as o.s.l.odm).