Ldap Realm configuration on Jboss AS7

In Jboss 6 and lower the ldap Realm was configured in the login-config.xml file like :

 


com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory
simple
....

On jboss 7 the ldap Realm configuration has a little changed, it become on the standalone.xml (or in domain.xml) as a security domain under :

As bellow:

 
     
       
            
            
...
        
      
  

Note that the xml parser has changed in Jboss 7, so you should convert every module-option tag so that the lowest level data element for the module-option tag was replaced by the attribute value= and the tag was converted to a self-closing tag, for example:

com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory

Become:

For our blog ldap directory, the wall configuration become :

also,

needs to be changed to:

else ModuleClassLoader won't load the com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory which is needed in ldap authentication modules, and obviously you ll need org.jboss.security.auth.spi.LdapLoginModule on classpath.