Preparations

Names

When you look at the Context and DirContext interfaces, you'll notice that there are overloaded forms of each method: one that accepts a String name and one that accepts a Name . Each pair of these overloaded methods are equivalent in that if the Name and String parameters are just different representations of the same name, then the overloaded versions of the same methods behave the same.

For the purposes of this trail, you can just think of and use the name parameter as a name in the target namespace (such as that of your LDAP server). For a more thorough discussion of names, see the Beyond the Basics trail.

Preparations: End of Lesson

What's next? Now you can:

• Continue on in this trail to learn how to perform naming operations using the JNDI.
• Go to the Directory Operations lesson to learn how to perform directory operations using the JNDI.

Preparations