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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,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, see .
 */




/**
 * This package provides an API which intends to make it easy to interact with
 * directory data using Java objects.  It is primarily a persistence framework,
 * which includes the ability to convert between Java objects and LDAP entries,
 * but it also provides a means of performing LDAP operations (add, delete,
 * modify, and search) with that data.
 * 


 * At the heart of the LDAP persistence framework is a set of annotation types
 * that can be used to mark source code to indicate how it should be stored in
 * the LDAP directory server.  Those annotations include:
 * 
 *   {@code LDAPObject} -- This annotation type is used to mark the class
 *       for objects that may be stored in an LDAP directory server.  It
 *       provides information about the structural and auxiliary object classes
 *       that should be used in the LDAP representation of the data.
 *   {@code LDAPField} -- This annotation type is used to mark fields in
 *       classes for objects that should be stored in an LDAP directory server.
 *       It provides information about the LDAP attribute that should be used to
 *       store the information for that field, and to identify constraints on
 *       how that field may be used.
 *   {@code LDAPGetter} and {@code LDAPSetter} -- These annotation
 *       types provide an alternative to the {@code LDAPField} annotation.
 *       Rather than marking fields, they should be used to mark getter and
 *       setter methods that can be used to retrieve and update the associated
 *       value.
 *   {@code LDAPDNField} -- This annotation type should be used to mark at
 *       most one field in a Java class whose value should be the DN of the LDAP
 *       entry with which the object instance is associated.
 *   {@code LDAPEntryField} -- This annotation type should be used to mark
 *       at most one field in a Java class whose value should be a read-only
 *       representation of the LDAP entry with which the object instance is
 *       associated.
 * 
 * 


 * The {@code LDAPObjectHandler} class provides the primary interface for
 * interacting with objects of a specified type and converting between the Java
 * and LDAP representations of that data.  The {@code ObjectEncoder} class
 * provides an API that may be used to convert between Java and LDAP
 * representations for object values.
 */
package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.persist;