Many times during integration projects we need to setup integration between Liferay and LDAP server. In most cases we are using LDAP server already existed in the system (for example organization Active Directory server). But in some specific cases (like testing or demo) it may be required to setup LDAP server specially for integration with Liferay.

Using some default system LDAP server (OpenLDAP, Active Directory) may be hard and requre system administrator rights.

So, at EMDEV Limited, we developed simple LDAP plugin for Liferay started LDAP server, based on Apache DS, during Liferay startup.

It is open-source project under LGPL license, for more details, source-code and downloads please visit project wiki-page on github.