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+Extends the <tt>javax.naming</tt> package to provide functionality
+for accessing directory services.
+
+<p>
+This package defines the directory operations of the Java Naming and
+Directory Interface<font size=-2><sup>TM</sup></font> (JNDI).
+JNDI provides naming and directory functionality to applications
+written in the Java programming language. It is designed to be
+independent of any specific naming or directory service
+implementation. Thus a variety of services--new, emerging, and
+already deployed ones--can be accessed in a common way.
+
+<p>
+This package allows applications to retrieve and update attributes
+associated with objects stored in a directory, and to search for
+objects using specified attributes.
+
+<h4>The Directory Context</h4>
+
+The <tt>DirContext</tt>
+interface represents a <em>directory context</em>.
+It defines methods for examining and updating attributes associated with a
+<em>directory object</em>, or <em>directory entry</em> as it is sometimes
+called.
+<p>
+You use <tt>getAttributes()</tt> to retrieve the attributes
+associated with a directory object (for which you supply the name).
+Attributes are modified using <tt>modifyAttributes()</tt>.
+You can add, replace, or remove attributes and/or attribute values
+using this operation.
+<p>
+<tt>DirContext</tt> also behaves as a naming context
+by extending the <tt>Context</tt> interface in the <tt>javax.naming</tt> package.
+This means that any directory object can also provide
+a naming context.
+For example, the directory object for a person might contain
+the attributes of that person, and at the same time provide
+a context for naming objects relative to that person
+such as his printers and home directory.
+
+<h4>Searches</h4>
+<tt>DirContext</tt> contains methods for
+performing content-based searching of the directory.
+In the simplest and most common form of usage, the application
+specifies a set of attributes--possibly with specific
+values--to match, and submits this attribute set, to the
+<tt>search()</tt> method.
+There are other overloaded forms of <tt>search()</tt>
+that support more sophisticated <em>search filters</em>.
+
+
+<h2>Package Specification</h2>
+
+The JNDI API Specification and related documents can be found in the
+<a href="../../../../technotes/guides/jndi/index.html">JNDI documentation</a>.
+
+@since 1.3
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