It looks like the LDAP demo application (geronimo/ldap-demo-jetty/1.2-SNAPSHOT/car) depends on the sample LDAP realm (geronimo/ldap-realm/1.2-SNAPSHOT/car), but neither of these depend on the embedded Directory server. So if you install those without directory and try the demo, you get connect exceptions to localhost.
I'm assuming we should add an import on geronimo-directory to the sample LDAP realm? Thanks, Aaron