CMS Active Directory User Model Project

My first project was related to the CMS project, ESI's implementation of JSR-170, the Content Repository API for Java specification. I worked on a user model implementation that utilized Windows Active Directory. I researched how to enable AD for access using SSL over LDAP. The user model classes used the JNDI API to access AD using SSL. I mapped the data we wanted to store to the appropriate attributes in AD and wrote code to add/modify/delete users and roles (groups), authenticate users, perform lookups, etc. I also implemented methods to export and import the user/role data to XML.