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# Miscellaneous

> The Basics trail showed how you can access the LDAP directory by using the JNDI packages. This lesson contains tips for affecting the behavior of the LDAP service provider.

> Following are the topics covered:

> - How to specify which protocol version (2 or 3) to use
> - How to read nonstring attributes from the directory
> - How to suppress the return of attribute values
> - How to control the dereferencing of aliases
> - How to rename an LDAP entry
> - How to control how `Reference`s are stored
> - How to use LDAP URLs

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