java: prefix for datasources

[_developer]

Hello,

I'm porting a J2EE application to JBoss platform and faced the following problem

My configured data sources are not lookuped because JBoss expects me to add 'java:' prefix to the JNDI name in the lookup() call.

The goal is to build an application so that it can be run under several application servers, so if I change lookup() call my code will be incompatible with other app servers.

Is there any way to lookup the datasource with JBoss without adding the 'java:' prefix?

Thanks in advance

[borinsm]

Is this what you are looking for?

Configuring a DataSource for remote usage
As of jboss-4.0.0 there is support for accessing a DataSource from a remote client. The one change that is neccessary for the client to be able to lookup the DataSource from jndi is to specify use-java-context=false as shown here:


<local-tx-datasource>
<jndi-name>GenericDS</jndi-name>
<use-java-context>false</use-java-context>
<connection-url>...</connection-url>
...

This results in the DataSource being bound under the jndi name "GenericDS?" instead of the default of "java:/GenericDS" which restricts the lookup to the same vm as the jboss server.


taken from: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ConfigDataSources

[frankgrimes]

See the resource-ref tag of jboss.xml and jboss-web.xml.
e.g.
http://www.huihoo.com/jboss/online_manual/3.0/ch07.html
http://www.huihoo.com/jboss/online_manual/3.0/ch07s22.html

[_developer]

Thanks a lot!

use-java-context seems to me exactly what I need!