For each LDAP request type supported by the LDAP Access Service, there is a subclass of LDAPResponse that encapsulates the data returned by the request. Each response model wraps the native data object returned by LDAP, and also provides its own data object to support externalization and accessibility. The LDAP response models are provided mainly for the purpose of externalization. Since the objects returned by JNDI already have access methods for them, these methods have not been duplicated in the LDAP Access Service response models. If working with these response models directly, a call should be made to getLDAPReturnObject() to get the native JDNI. Working with this object requires knowledge of the JNDI API. For more information, see the documentation from Sun for JDK 1.5.

The following table shows the associations between LDAP request types, supporting LDAPResponse subclasses, and Java packages.

If the LDAP Access Service output data has been externalized, then the LDAPResponse object is not used directly. However, for applications that handle their own response data, the LDAP return object should be obtained by makint he following call:

Cast the object returned by this method to the appropriate class for the request type. For example, for a search request that uses the following:

Consult the JDK 1.5 documentation for information on the LDAP objects wrapped within the response models.