Why does CosNaming create a new ORB?

Question

When I use Sun's CosNaming to do JNDI it creates a new ORB, why doesn't it use the ORB configured in deploy/iiop-service.xml?

Answer

Because Sun's CosNaming uses the ORB configured in the Naming environment. The default JBoss initial context factory

org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory

does not set the ORB, you need to use a context factory that does set the ORB to JBoss's ORB.

Change conf/jndi.properties

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
#
java.naming.factory.initial=org.jboss.iiop.naming.ORBInitialContextFactory
java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces

Application client

The

org.jboss.iiop.naming.ORBInitialContextFactory

is also required

if you are using CosNaming in an application client.