This is a fairly comprehensive stand alone JNDI Provider that can be run via unit tests for stand alone testing, without any use of networking or external resources.

## Package Specification

The test provider package is a reasonably complete JNDI provider for testing JNDI functions without using an external directory. It allows for fake data to be loaded in test cases, and retrieved with simple searches of the form (attribute=value), and allows for returning specified attribute lists.

It does not allow for more complex multi-item searches (&(att1=val1)(att2=val2)), or searches with other operators than equals, although there is some support for wild cards and simple searches.

The package includes a context factory etc., so that it can be registered with the Sun JNDI provider system using a command such as:

`jndienv.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.apache.clients.testprovider.TestProviderContextFactory");`

Alternatively a test context can be created directly using a command such as:

`new TestProviderContextFactory().getInitialContext(new Hashtable());`