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 1.5.45. Be sure that you use this version of the server, or a later one.

package org.apache.directory.samples.embed.webapp;

import java.io.File;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;

import org.apache.directory.server.core.DefaultDirectoryService;
import org.apache.directory.server.core.DirectoryService;
import org.apache.directory.server.ldap.LdapServiceLdapServer;
import org.apache.directory.server.protocol.shared.transport.SocketAcceptorTcpTransport;

/**
 * A Servlet context listener to start and stop ApacheDS.
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@directory.apache.org">Apache Directory
 *         Project</a>
 */
public class StartStopListener implements ServletContextListener 
{

    private DirectoryService directoryService;

    private SocketAcceptorLdapServer socketAcceptorldapServer;
    private LdapService ldapService;

    /**
     * Startup ApacheDS embedded.
     */
    public void contextInitialized( ServletContextEvent evt )
    {

        try {
        {
    directoryService =        directoryService = new DefaultDirectoryService();
            directoryService.setShutdownHookEnabled( true );

            socketAcceptorldapServer = new SocketAcceptorLdapServer(null);
            ldapService = new LdapService(ldapServer.setDirectoryService( directoryService );
            ldapServiceldapServer.setSocketAcceptorsetAllowAnonymousAccess(socketAcceptor);
            ldapService.setDirectoryService(directoryService true );

            // Set LDAP port to 10389
            ldapService.setIpPort(10389TcpTransport ldapTransport = new TcpTransport( 10389 );

            // ldapServer.setTransports( ldapTransport );

            // Determine an appropriate working directory
            ServletContext servletContext = evt.getServletContext();
            File workingDir = ( File ) servletContext
                    .getAttribute( "javax.servlet.context.tempdir" );
            directoryService.setWorkingDirectory( workingDir );

            directoryService.startup();
            ldapServiceldapServer.start();

            // Store directoryService in context to provide it to servlets etc.
            servletContext.setAttribute( DirectoryService.JNDI_KEY, directoryService );
        }
        catch ( Exception e directoryService);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException( e );
        }
    }

    /**
     * Shutdown ApacheDS embedded.
     */
    public void contextDestroyed( ServletContextEvent evt )
    {
        try
        {
            ldapServiceldapServer.stop();
            directoryService.shutdown();
        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
            throw new RuntimeException( e );
        }
    }
}