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# Searches

> The Directory Operations lesson described how to perform basic searches and how to use search filters and search controls.

> This lesson describes LDAP searches in more detail. It discusses how the different search methods and other methods in the `DirContext` interface map to the LDAP "search" and "compare" operations. It also explores search results returned by the search methods and how to control the batch size of search results returned by the server.

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