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Although the concepts depicted below apply to all version of ApacheDS (even before 1.0), the configuration for starting and stopping the embedded server uses the style introduced with ApacheDS 1.5.14. Be sure that you use this version of the server, or a later one. |
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A Servlet Context Listener to start and stop ApacheDS
A servler servlet context listener receives notifications about changes to the servlet context of the web application it is part of. Documentation of the ServletContextListener interface can be found here. To receive notification events, the implementation class must be configured in the deployment descriptor for the web application. The two life cycle methods contextInitialized and contextDestroyed are suitable to start and stop ApacheDS.
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After the server has been started from the Listener, it will be accessible from the outside via the network using LDAP. In order to demonstrate how to interact with the server from within the VM, a simple servlet is demonstratedshown. It allows you to communicate with the embedded server via web browser. This is so simple, because the server already lives within a web application, only a servlet has to added to act as an entry point. Our sample servlet will diplay the Root DSE of the server.
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