jPeeps is written in 100% pure Java and therefore is platform independent. The purpose of jPeeps is to provide a simple API for writing applications that interact with directories. The idea is that the programmer works with a simple User/Group object model instead of JNDI's more complex scheme. Additionally, code written using jPeeps should be easily portable to another directory server as the implementation-specific details (server names, authentication type, etc) resides in an XML configuration file. The idea is your same code can run on different directory servers simply by changing the configuration file.

There are four main goals of this API:

100% Java - using only packages available in the J2SE SDK

Platform Independent - any OS with any LDAP-compliant directory server

Simplify - make writing applications that interact with directories easy

Reusability - implementation-specific details reside in a configuration file