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## Names

> Notice that the `Context` and `DirContext` interfaces include overloaded forms of each method: one that accepts a `java.lang.String` name and one that accepts a `Name`. Each pair of these overloaded methods is equivalent in that if the `Name` and `java.lang.String` parameters are simply different representations of the same name, then the overloaded versions of the same methods behave in the same way.

> For the purposes of this trail, you can just think of and use the name parameter as a name in the target namespace (such as that of your LDAP server). For a more thorough discussion of names, see the Beyond the Basics trail.

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> What's next? Now you can:

> - Continue on in this trail to learn how to perform naming operations using the JNDI.
> - Go to the Directory Operations lesson to learn how to perform directory operations using the JNDI.

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