This is a J2EE client using log4j to log information.

To make the client robust, I decide to test the boundary condition. I stop the JBoss Server, then run the client. no exception is thrown, only warn message is printed on the console.

To know why, I write a simple client as the following:

public static void main( String[] argv)
 {
 try
 {
 System.out.println( "1") ;
 Context initial = null ;
 initial = new InitialContext() ;
 System.out.println( "2") ;
 Object objref = initial.lookup( "java:comp/env/" + UTILITY_FACADE) ;
 System.out.println( "3") ;
 UtilityFacadeHome home = ( UtilityFacadeHome ) PortableRemoteObject.narrow( objref, UtilityFacadeHome.class ) ;
 System.out.println( "4") ;
 UtilityFacade facade = home.create() ;
 System.out.println( "5") ;
 }
 catch ( Throwable ex )
 {
 System.out.println( "--Error--") ;
 throw new UtilityConnectionException( ex.getMessage() ) ;
 }
 System.out.println( "Done") ;
 }

The output is:
1
2
2004-08-02 16:26:48,078 WARN org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext - Failed to connect to localhost:1099
......
... 10 more
3
4
5
Done

What's wrong with the above code? May I miss some configuration?

JBoss 3.2.5, JDK 1.4.2.

Thank you very much.