If you have ever implemented login feature in a production grade application, you must have heard about the LDAP authentication. LDAP can be used in any type of the hierarchical directory information. The most popular use of LDAP is to store an organizational data. A typical organization generally has directors, managers, supervisors and other positions. In other words, these are the hierarchical data where LDAP mechanism is perfect to implement. In this way, most of the organizations use it to maintain the organizational information including their credentials. We will discuss Spring Security LDAP Authentication Example in this article. In Spring based applications, LDAP is used to integrate with LDAP directories and perform various directory-related operations, such as user authentication and authorization.