lookup remote DataSource fail with JBoss 5 GA

[nouredine13]

Hello,

i'm working on j2ee application running on JBoss 5 GA and want
to lookup a remote datasource I configured. The datasource is mapped to an
Oracle 9.0.2 DB.

I configured the datasource within
$JBOSS/server/default/deploy/oracle-ds.xml
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<local-tx-datasource>
<jndi-name>jdbc/cless-ds</jndi-name>
<connection-url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@londres:1521:MMSERVER</connection-url>
<driver-class>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</driver-class>
<user-name>xyz</user-name>
xyz
...
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when I try to lookup the datasource with a simple client, with something like this :
...
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:jdbc/cless-ds");
....
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i have the following exception :

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jdbc not bound
at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:771)
at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:779)
at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getObject(NamingServer.java:785)
at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.lookup(NamingServer.java:396)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:713)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:673)
....

I Would be very glad for any hint.

Thank's a lot.

[nouredine13]

i have found the solution:

The one change that is necessary 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.

Best regard's.