as a newbie I'm completely baffled by this also. The tutorial seems to contain a number of typos which stop someone of my LDAP level dead in their tracks!
Created a partition using & "o=SevenSeas,dc=com" o=sevenseas" and in both cases when trying to restart the server I keep getting a really useful -- Starting ApacheDS instance 'default'... org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.exception.LdapOtherException: java.lang.Integer cannot be cast to java.lang.Long at ..... which means absolutely nothing to me and I've no idea what to do now except reinstall again and literally guess what how to fix. I'm sure this is a great product but wasted so much time battling what probably is a very simple problem, maybe I should try another product unless someone can help and tell me what to try next? Don't mean to sound ungrateful as obviously this if free but for us thickies, we need a simple, accurate tutorial to follow thanks in advance! and to compound the problem, I can't even post what I want to because my <30 lines of post gets rejected because for some reason this system thinks "You have lines longer than 80 characters. Fix that"
