LDAP Transport Installation Instructions

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Prerequisites 1.4.x

Installing the Binary (1.4.x)

1. Install Mule 1.4.x to your machine, if not already installed.  When done, set your $MULE_HOME environment variable to where you installed Mule, for example c:/mule/mule-1.4.x.  Also, add $MULE_HOME/bin to your $PATH.
2. Download the LDAP Transport JAR and copy it to $MULE_HOME/lib/user.
3. Download the Novell jldap JAR 4.3 and copy it to $MULE_HOME/lib/user.
4. Start mule with the -config parameter pointing to an example file where the LDAP Transport is used. If you need an directory/ldap server you can download Apache directory server from apache.org.

Installing from Source (1.4.x)

1. Install Mule 1.4.x to your machine, if not already installed.  When done, set your $MULE_HOME environment variable to where you installed Mule, for example c:/mule/mule-1.4.x.  Also, add $MULE_HOME/bin to your $PATH.
2. Download Maven 2.0.5 or higher and add the $MAVEN_HOME/bin to your $PATH
3. Check out the latest LDAP Transport code from Subversion at: https://svn.muleforge.org/mule-transport-ldap
   For this example, let's say your Subversion workspace is $WS.
4. cd to $WS
5. Run "mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install" at the command prompt.  This builds the LDAP connector. 
6. Copy the mule-transport-ldap.jar file from $WS/target to $MULE_HOME/lib/user.
7. Copy the libraries from the "Library Dependencies" directory below to $MULE_HOME/lib/user.
8. Start mule with the -config parameter pointing to an example file where the LDAP Transport is used. If you need an directory/ldap server you can download Apache directory server from apache.org.

Library Dependencies

The following libraries are needed by the LDAP Transport.  They are copied to you M2_REPO location during the build:

$M2_REPO/com/novell/ldap/jldap/4.3/jldap-4.3.jar

Note: The $M2_REPO location on Linux/Unix the location is  ~/.m2 by default. On Windows it's usually c:/Documents and Settings/<user>/.m2.