JBoss 2.4.4

I have to integrate another software package with JBoss. I cannot run the integration software from the jame JVM as JBoss, as an MBean or an EJB, therefore I would like to access and use a JDBC pool from a different JVM.

Sounds easy, right? Just lookup the bound JNDI name and request a connection. Unfortunately the JNDI name is bound under the java: namespace and therefore cannot be accessed from a different JVM.

As a test I copied the org.jboss.jdbc.JDBCDataSourceLoader MBean and modified it to bind to /jdbc/myPool. It started fine as a JBoss MBean and the /jdbc/myPool name bound to JNDI just fine. I then wrote a test program to access /jdbc/myPool and get a connection. No joy:

try {
ctx = new InitialContext(ctxProps);
Object ref = ctx.lookup("/jdbc/myPool");
if (ref == null) {
System.out.println("lookup returned null");
System.exit(1);
}
} catch (NamingException nx) {
...
}

This always outputs "lookup returned null" which means the object returned from JNDI was null.

Can anyone explain this?

I am really just trying to get around copying or writing my own JDBC connection pooling code. I need JBoss for other things anyway, so it sure would be nice to be able to use it to do the JDBC connection pooling for me as well. Both JVM's are running on the same machine, but I can't use the JBoss JVM to run the integration code.

Thanks all!