When writing applications that interchange information with LDAP directory services there is always the need to write integration tests for these components and services.

Therefore we need a the possibility to start-up an embedded LDAP server, fill it with test-data and control its life-cycle during the test-phases.

In the following tutorial I’d like to demonstrate two candidates that fulfil this purpose, the ApacheDS test integrations and a small library named embedded-ldap-junit.

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