Welcome to JXplorer!

jxplorer screenshot JXplorer is an open source, cross platform LDAP browser. It is a standards compliant general purpose LDAP browser that can be used to read and search any LDAP directory, or any X500 directory with an LDAP interface. It is flexible, can be extended in a number of ways, and is is available for immediate free download under the OSI Apache 2 licence (with the name changed).

JXplorer is written in java, and the source code and Ant build system are available via svn for users who want to experiment or extend the program.

JX has been through a number of different versions; the most recent stable release is 3.2.2 with 3.3 currently in late beta (full release due May 2012)

Features

JXplorer is a fully functional LDAP client with advanced security integration and support for the more difficult and obscure parts of the LDAP protocol. It has been tested on Windows, Solaris, Linux and OSX, packages are available for HPUX, AIX, BSD and it should run on any java supporting operating system. Its features include:

  • LDAP add/delete/copy/modify
  • tree copy, move and delete
  • Drag-n-drop editing
  • Complex searching
  • UI for search filter construction
  • SSL/TLS support
  • SASL Authentication
  • Full i18n support
  • translated into Hungarian, French,
    German and Chinese (both)
  • Unicode Support
  • UTF8 allowed in DNs
  • schema support
  • Extensive Help System
  • LDIF import/export
  • Offline LDIF file editing
  • DSML support
  • version 2 LDAP support
  • Configurable HTML templates/forms
  • Themes / Skinning
  • Pluggale Editors
  • Pluggable Security Providers
  • Multi Valued RDNs
  • Binary Attributes
  • Certificate keystore
  • Supports Client keys and Certs
  • GSSAPI support
  • An Admin Guide

Version History

VersionPrimary FeaturesDate
3.3 Multiple Windows with X-window copy/paste
Paged Results, Hungarian
May 2012
3.2.2 java 1.5, OSX 10.6/7, Win 7,
Improved operation att handling
September 2011
3.2.1 Build, install improvements,
bug fixes, Taiwanese
June 2010
3.2 DSML, Support for more directoriesMarch 2007
3.1 OSX Support, April 2005
3.0 Improved multimedia editors and security handling
Chinese, French, German
November 2003
2 Computer Associates Initial Open Source release July 2002
1 Computer Associates Internal release '99 - '02

Download

jxplorer screenshot You can get the latest stable install package of JXplorer on the Package Downloads Page.

If you're after the source code, or one of the sub-projects (such as the Security Keystore UI), you should look at the general Downloads page, which gives details of what's available and how to check things out from the http://sourceforge.net/projects/jxplorer/ sourceforge repository.

More Info

There's a lot more information, including an online version of the Help System, available on this site. Browse the menu links to find more information including a variety of Documentation resources, more information on the various Components that make up JXplorer, and the details of the Open Source Licence.

In addition there are a number of active mailing lists where further help is available, (or indeed your problem may already have been addressed in the mail archives).


Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the efforts of the many people who have contributed bug reports, code fixes, and of course the extensive translation files to the project, and who have helped so much to improve JXplorer and make it what it is today.

JXplorer also gratefully acknowledges the support of the following organisations who have materially aided our efforts:

Computer Associates Logo

Computer Associates for the initial Donation of the JXplorer source code in 2002.

 
SourceForge.net Logo

SourceForge for providing a home for the project.

 
Proud user ofIDE for professional JavaScript
development with AJAX ready refactorings

Intellij IDEA for donating licences for their fine java IDE to JXplorer.

 
BitRock Install Builder Logo

BitRock Install Builder for donating a licence for their excellent cross-platform installer product.

 
pegacat.com for LDAP, JNDI and Java consulting

Pegacat Software for their sponsorship of this project and this website.

 

 

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