The
Directory Operations 
lesson described how to perform basic searches, and how to use search
filters and search controls.
This lesson describes LDAP searches in more detail.
It describes how the different
search methods and
other methods in the
DirContext
interface map to the LDAP "search" and
"compare" operations.
It also contains sections on search results
returned by the search methods, and on how to control the
batch size of search results returned by the server.
