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The UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java is a fast, comprehensive, and easy-to-use Java API for communicating with LDAP directory servers and performing related tasks like reading and writing LDIF, encoding and decoding data using base64 and ASN.1 BER, and performing secure communication. This package contains the Commercial Edition of the LDAP SDK, which includes all of the general-purpose functionality contained in the Standard Edition, plus additional functionality specific to UnboundID server products.

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/*
 * Copyright 2009-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2 only)
 * or the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv2.1 only)
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
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package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.migrate.ldapjdk;



import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;



/**
 * This interface defines a method that can be used to bind to a server when
 * following a referral.
 * 


 * This class is primarily intended to be used in the process of updating
 * applications which use the Netscape Directory SDK for Java to switch to or
 * coexist with the UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java.  For applications not written
 * using the Netscape Directory SDK for Java, the
 * {@link com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.ReferralConnector} class should be used
 * instead.
 */
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public interface LDAPBind
{
  /**
   * Authenticates the provided connection created for the purpose of following
   * a referral.
   *
   * @param  conn  The connection to be authenticated.
   *
   * @throws  LDAPException  If a problem occurs while processing the bind.
   */
  void bind(final LDAPConnection conn)
       throws LDAPException;
}