Binding to JNDI datasource - please help

[John Chambers]

Hi all, I'm relatively new to JNDI concepts and need some help. I am
writing a web app that accepts a variable specifying a jndi pooled
connection datasource as a url variable. This is a requirement and
cannot be changed. For example index.jsp?db=ja va:defaultdb

How do I use this JNDI name to create a connection? All the
literature I have read says to bind the resource manager connection
factory reference (res-ref-name) to the (jndi-name) in the server
specific xml (assumes knowledge of jndi name beforehand). Then do a
lookup on res-ref-name. In this case I do not know on what server
this war will be deployed and want to bind directly to the datasource
defined by my url variable. Can I do this without using a
res-ref-name and doing a lookup?

Your help is apprecitated,

John

[Raymond DeCampo]

Re: Binding to JNDI datasource - please help

John Chambers wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all, I'm relatively new to JNDI concepts and need some help. I am
> writing a web app that accepts a variable specifying a jndi pooled
> connection datasource as a url variable. This is a requirement and
> cannot be changed. For example index.jsp?db=ja va:defaultdb
>
> How do I use this JNDI name to create a connection? All the
> literature I have read says to bind the resource manager connection
> factory reference (res-ref-name) to the (jndi-name) in the server
> specific xml (assumes knowledge of jndi name beforehand). Then do a
> lookup on res-ref-name. In this case I do not know on what server
> this war will be deployed and want to bind directly to the datasource
> defined by my url variable. Can I do this without using a
> res-ref-name and doing a lookup?
>[/color]

Yes. The res-ref-name and friends are there to allow the application
developer to use a specific (logical) JNDI location without knowing the
actual JNDI location. Then the application deployer binds the logical
JNDI location to a physical JNDI location.

But nothing prevents you from accessing the physical JNDI location
directly, except for following good programming practices. ;-)

Just give it a try and see what happens.

HTH,
Ray

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XML is the programmer's duct tape.