ClassNotFoundException : org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFac

[briforge]

Trying to get EJBs working with JBoss for the first time. Yes, I've read the Getting Started docs. I've also been googling and scouring forums for a couple days on this. Going crazy, any help would be much appreciated.

I'm using Eclipse 3.0 and JBoss 3.0.8 (why? because it's a project requirement; I dunno beyond that)
I've deployed the EJB jar to JBoss and am trying to run JUnit test via and ant script. All of this was packaged and given to me so it's supposed to work already, I just have to configure my environment correctly. So it's an external client trying to use the EJBs on JBoss.

My jndi.properties file, which is located in /jboss/server/myserver/conf/, is:

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
java.naming.factory.url=localhost:1099
java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces

is it supposed to be

java.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099
or
java.naming.factory.url=localhost:1099
?

And my client code snippet :

Hashtable environment=new Hashtable();
environment.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "localhost:1099");
environment.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
namingContext = new InitialContext(environment);

I've added the jbossall-client.jar and jnp-client.jars to my Ant runtime classpath via the Window->Preferences->Ant->Runtime in Eclipse. I think I've added them to the appropriate compile classpaths, but this looks like a runtime classpath issue, doesn't it?

Thanks.

[darranl]

The jndi.properties file in 'myserver/conf' needs to be set back to :-

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

[briforge]

Thanks for the reply, I'll give that a shot.

Can you tell me more about why? Other than I didn't know what I was doing? Was the default port already 1099?

[darranl]

The file that you were editing is the file used by JBoss internally, clients should have their own copy of the file.

The default file allows JBoss to access JNDI within the JVM without making network calls, editing this file causes all calls to go over the network.

[briforge]

Ok so where is the client copy of the jndi.properties file supposed to be? Or is the client supposed to work with just the lines of code I posted in the original message?

[briforge]

Oh btw I put the jndi.properties file in the myserver/conf file back to what you recommended and still have the same problem.