As you've seen in the
Storing Objects 
lesson,
there are different ways in which Java objects (or rather information
about Java objects) are stored in the directory.
In each of that lesson's examples, you also saw that once the object
has been stored, you can simply use the
Context.lookup()
method to get a copy of the object back from the directory,
regardless of what type of information was actually stored.
In addition to lookup(),
there are two other ways in which you can get the objects back:
-
When you list a context
-
When you search a context or its subtree
In all of these cases, object factories
may be involved. A brief discussion of how object factories
are used is included in the lookup section
of this lesson.
Object factories are discussed in detail in the
Object Factories lesson.
