NoInitialContextException, jndi look up from separate VM

[jackxwu]

i have jboss-tomcat 2.4.4 running in one VM and started a separate VM to run a client program. i then received the

"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(NamingManager.java:643)"

when the following lines are called:
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
Object result = ic.lookup("Idgenerator");

going to http://localhost:8082/, i can see the global jndi name as follows:

Management
.....
jndiName=EjbBinding
jndiName=Idgenerator
......


when start up the client program i had the necessary jar files such as: jndi.jar, jnp-client.jar, etc. on classpath. and i used

java -Djava.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099

so i suppose the system property was passed to the VM.

what else could go wrong?

[adrian.brock]

You need to specify the following parameters

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

Regards,
Adrian

[jackxwu]

Adrian:

That works. Thanks for the response.

this is the VM parameter i used:

-Djava.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099
-Djava.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
-Djava.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces