title: Play! Framework Authentication with LDAP
body: <p>I am writing a webApp with Play2 for Java and want to use LDAP for user authentication... Im new to LDAP and actually don't know exactly how it works and how to use it in Play...</p>
  
  <p>for now I've found <a href="https://github.com/joscha/play-authenticate" rel="noreferrer">this plugin</a> that should probably do the trick, but I cannot find any example of it that uses LDAP authentication. do you know any tutorial that might help me take the first steps?</p>
  
  <p>I also came across this blog post which is looking good, but does not use play authentication plugins, so it might not be that flexible?
  <a href="http://www.philipp.haussleiter.de/2013/07/adding-ldap-authentication-to-a-play-2-application/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.philipp.haussleiter.de/2013/07/adding-ldap-authentication-to-a-play-2-application/</a></p>