(TUTORIAL) Official JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) Tutorial by SUN.com

1. Naming and Directory Concepts Start here to get an overview of naming and directory concepts.
2. JNDI Overview Gives you an overview of JNDI, its architecture and packaging.
3. Software Setup Describes instructions and steps involved in setting an environment that is required to run the examples described in this trail as well as any other JNDI application.
4. Naming and Directory Operations Describes various naming and directory operations and demonstrates them through plenty of examples that access naming/directory services using JNDI.
5. Advanced Topics for LDAP users A specialized lesson for the LDAP users. It talks about modeling JNDI as an LDAP API, how to perform LDAP authentication, SSL and managing connections in production environments.
6. Accessing Objects in the Directory Shows you how to integrate your application with the directory, so that you can store and retrieve Java objects to and from the directory.
7. New features in JDK 5.0 and JDK 6 Introduces to the new features in the JNDI and the LDAP Service Provider that are available in JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.

Source:http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jndi/index.html

Courtesy: java.sun.com