How do you authenticate against an Active Directory server using Spring Security?

Question

I\'m writing a Spring web application that requires users to login. My company has an Active Directory server that I\'d like to make use of for this purpose. However, I\'m

Answer 1

Just to bring this to an up-to-date status. Spring Security 3.0 has a complete package with default implementations devoted to ldap-bind as well as query and compare authentication.