Question about InitialContextFactory

[xin.zhang.song]

Hi All

I met a question about intial context factory,

There are two intical context factory class in jboss 7,

Here are they:

1.org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContextFactory

2.org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory

Is there any difference between this two factory class?  Is there the converter things to convert the two IntialContextFactory?

Thanks

Xin

[xin.zhang.song]

any comment?

[nickarls]

Looking at the names... one is for remote lookups? ;-)

[xin.zhang.song]

Thanks for you fast respones.

Can I use this org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContextFactory factory in the remote client ?

Thanks

Xin

[nickarls]

Without checking, I would guess when you do a new InitialContext() without properties, the org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContextFactory is used and you are restricted to non-remote lookups and when you pass in properties with Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY set to org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory, you can do remote lookups.

[xin.zhang.song]

I cannot comprehend it,  Can you give me more detail?

Thanks

Xin

[nickarls]

https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/blob/master/naming/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/naming/InitialContextFactory.java

https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-remote-naming/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/naming/remote/client/InitialContextFactory.java

https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/blob/master/naming/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/naming/InitialContext.java