Using jndi.properties file instead of hard coding

[nkm1]

I have a servlet in Tomcat. The servlet does a look up as follows:

{
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.setProperty"java.naming.factory.initial","org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
prop.setProperty"java.naming.provider.url","server:1099");
prop.setProperty"java.naming.factory.url.pkgs","org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");

InitialContext initial = new InitialContext();
Object objRef = initial.lookup("projectX/CountryRegionSession");
}

now if i had to do this for hundreds of servlets it would be very repetative. Can anyone explain how i use a jndi.properties file to alleaviate this problem.
I did create a jndi.properties file and place it in the classpath on the computer where the servlet is but this didn't work.

Thanks
Naresh

[mipe]

I load jndi.properties manually like this:

ClassLoader cl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();

Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(cl.getResourceAsStream(resname));

InitialContext initial = new InitialContext(props);

however, of course, it is also repetiative.

You may place this code in a common class that all other classes can reach such as the ServiceLocator class in the j2ee petstore demo (java.sun.com).