I am running JBoss 2.4.4 - Tomcat 4.0.1 on a Windows XP machine. I can start up JBoss fine with the 'run_with_catalina.bat' file. I was then trying to test some things out by workign with the 'interest' example. Using ANT I am able to compile, jar. and deploy the jar file to the JBOSS_DIST/deploy directory. When I try to run the client application however, I continue to get the following error:

javax.naming.CommunicationException: Can't find SerialContextProvider when the client tries to do the lookup. The client code up until the error line looks like:

package org.jboss.docs.interest;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
import org.jboss.docs.interest.Interest;
import org.jboss.docs.interest.InterestHome;

class InterestClient
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
// Get a naming context
InitialContext jndiContext = new InitialContext();
System.out.println("Got context");

// Get a reference to the Interest Bean
Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("interest/Interest");
System.out.println("Got reference");
...........


The target in the build.xml file for starting the app looks like:


















I don't know whether the issue is the access to the jndi.properties file or its contents:

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

Any thoughts as to whether the target in the ant is bad, an XP issue, or something else.

Thanks - Peter