The goal of the LDAP Client package is to provide access to any LDAP server "over-the-wire". These clients will perform the following operations:
There will be a traditional command line set of clients. These are Java so will be platform independant. The command line clients will also come with a set of wrappers for Unix/Linux and Windows so the Java specific paths and arguments will be abstracted away. The users will only need to provide the command line arguments specific to the LDAP operation.
The client package will also include a set of library methods to embed LDAP clients into an application. Each of the operations in the command line will be able to be performed in the library. This will be used for application that wish to connect over the wire to an LDAP server. Many of the LDAP specific details, such as parsing LDIF's have been handled. The application will not have to worry about dealing with LDAP specifics.