hi Murali, Stefan Seelmann pointed to me on IRC that persistent search[1] would be the right solution to get the updates from the ApacheDS.
The PersistentSearchIT[2] class shows how to use it [1] http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/50/I-D/ldapext-psearch-03.txt [2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/apacheds/trunk/server-integ/src/test/java/org/apache/directory/server/operations/search/PersistentSearchIT.java?view=markup thanks Seelmann Kiran Ayyagari
