Lookup an Object
Object obj = ctx.lookup("cn=Rosanna Lee,ou=People");
The type of object that is returned by lookup() depends both on the underlying naming system and on the data associated with the object itself. A naming system can contain many different types of objects, and a lookup of an object in different parts of the system might yield objects of different types. In this example, "cn=Rosanna Lee,ou=People" happens to be bound to a context object (javax.naming.ldap.LdapContext). You can cast the result of lookup() to its target class.
For example, the following code looks up the object "cn=Rosanna Lee,ou=People" and casts it to LdapContext.
import javax.naming.ldap.LdapContext;
...
LdapContext ctx = (LdapContext) ctx.lookup("cn=Rosanna Lee,ou=People");
The complete example is in the file Lookup.java.
There are two new static methods available in Java SE 6 to lookup a name:
These methods provide a shortcut way of looking up a name without instantiating an InitialContext.
