title: Open LDAP on Windows
body: <p>We are planning to use <em>OpenLDAP</em> for user management i.e.: all user information maintained in OpenLDAP, call LDAP services from our Java web application for user authentication, and later on planning to use ACL as well. I am totally new to this OpenLDAP and hence I have the following basic questions open:</p>
  
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  <li><p>In OpenLDAP site it says OpenLDAP software is platform independent and available for all OSes. But, when I start looking at documentation and FAQ (<a href="http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/8.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/8.html</a>), there is no Windows platform specific documentation, and somewhere I read that OpenLDAP 2.x is only for Unix systems. Now my question is: don't we have a Windows-based OpenLDAP 2.x version software? If yes, where should I download that from?</p></li>
  <li><p>I found one of the sites mentioning OpenLDAP for windows: <a href="http://www.userbooster.com/en/download/openldap-for-windows.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://www.userbooster.com/en/download/openldap-for-windows.aspx</a>. Can I download that and use it for my application? Is it free or proprietary to userbooster, because it is not from OpenLDAP.org </p></li>
  <li><p>Do you have any documenation or helpful links which talk on how you can call an OpenLDAP server for user authentication from a Java web application? Necessary setup on Java web app and OpenLDAP side?</p></li>
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  <p>Can anybody give me some advice?</p>