Need to specify class name in environment or system property

[andrewi]

hi

when i try running the client i get

Exception in thread "main" javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source)
at org.meerkat.fraud.client.Client.main(Client.java:12)

the client source is

package org.meerkat.fraud.client;

import javax.naming.InitialContext;

import org.meerkat.fraud.ejb.JFraud;

public class Client
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
JFraud test = (JFraud) ctx.lookup(JFraud.class.getName());
System.out.println("Creating 1");
test.addCustomer("Andrews Place", "Andrew" );
System.out.println("Done");
}
}

any ideas ?

tia
Andrew

[norman.richards]

Where is your jndi.properties file?

[andrewi]

I have put it in the projects root dir, package (clients) dir to no avail.

[darranl]

Hoe are you starting your application?

You need to make sure the directory containing the jndi.properties is on the classpath but how to do this will depend on how you are running the client.

[andrewi]

i'm using eclipse "run as java app".

[darranl]

Looking back at one of your earlier posts you need to make sure that the file is in the default package not in any of the sub packages.