4 Replies Latest reply on Aug 31, 2011 1:50 PM by beve

How to setup jndi.properties for AS7

saltnlight5 Aug 6, 2011 4:55 PM

Hi there,

In older jboss server, I usually set jndi.properties like this:

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory

java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces

java.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099

But these resulted in class not found in AS7, so I tried something close to matching what's avaible as maven dep like this:

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContextFactory

java.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099

I don't get ClassNotFoundException, but then I can not list any binding names either. Can someone show how we properly lookup resources via JNDI API programmatically?

Code I used to list JNDI resources:

    @Test
    public void testListJndi() throws Exception {
        Context ctx = null;
        try {
            ctx = new InitialContext();
            String contextName = "java:";
            NamingEnumeration<NameClassPair> nameList = ctx.list(contextName);
            while(nameList.hasMore()) {
                NameClassPair name = nameList.next();
                logger.info("{}", name);
            }
        } finally {
            if (ctx != null) {
                try {
                    ctx.close();
                } catch (NamingException e) {
                    logger.error("Failed to close JNDI context.", e);
                }
            }
        }
    }

1. Re: How to setup jndi.properties for AS7

dlofthouse Aug 9, 2011 7:47 AM (in response to saltnlight5)

At the moment remote JNDI is not yet supported, the following Jira issue is to address this: -

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1338
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2. Re: How to setup jndi.properties for AS7

beve Aug 30, 2011 10:09 AM (in response to dlofthouse)

I'm a little confused about the following comment on that jira:
We need to stop talking about "remote" JNDI. Clients will be able to use JNDI, but it will be a "local" JNDI view. This view will point to remote services and it might in some cases aggregate a very specific section of a remote tree, but there will be no remote access to a server JNDI tree.
I'm not sure I understand the "local" JNDI view

Lets say I have a remote client that needs to lookup JMS destinations from JNDI, what would that look like?
Any chance someone could show a code example of this (does not have to be real or anything that can be used at the moment).

Thanks,

/Daniel
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3. Re: How to setup jndi.properties for AS7

prasad.deshpande Aug 31, 2011 4:24 AM (in response to beve)

I'm not sure I understand the "local" JNDI view

That means looking up JNDI from within your application (ear/war). Outside your application like using Remote clients are not yet supported.

Lets say I have a remote client that needs to lookup JMS destinations from JNDI, what would that look like?
Any chance someone could show a code example of this (does not have to be real or anything that can be used at the moment).

This is not yet developed so nothing is yet available even to show as a sample example. But once it gets developed, code will be something like

@Resource(lookup="java:jboss/jms/topic/testTopic") Topic testTopic; //assuming testTopic is bound to JNDI "java:jboss/jms/topic/testTopic"
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4. Re: How to setup jndi.properties for AS7

beve Aug 31, 2011 1:50 PM (in response to prasad.deshpande)

This is not yet developed so nothing is yet available even to show as a sample example. But once it gets developed, code will be something like

@Resource(lookup="java:jboss/jms/topic/testTopic") Topic testTopic;
//assuming testTopic is bound to JNDI "java:jboss/jms/topic/testTopic"

Ah, got it! Thanks clearing that up for me.

Regards,

/Daniel
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