Adrian, here is the full stack trace:
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12:33:29,330 INFO [NamingService] Starting
12:33:29,340 INFO [NamingService] Starting jnp server
12:33:29,410 INFO [NamingService] Started jnpPort=1099, rmiPort=0, backlog=50, bindAddress=null, Client SocketFactory=null, Serve
r SocketFactory=null
12:33:29,410 WARN [NamingService] Context.PROVIDER_URL in server jndi.properties, url=localhost
12:33:29,420 INFO [NamingService] Listening on port 1099
12:33:29,430 INFO [NamingService] Started
12:33:29,430 INFO [JNDIView] Starting
12:33:29,430 INFO [JNDIView] Started
12:33:29,430 INFO [ExternalContext] Starting
12:33:29,440 ERROR [ExternalContext] Starting failed
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: weblogic.jndi.internal.WLInternalContext.(java.util.Hashtable, [Ljavax.naming.ldap.Control;
)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1769)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1002)
at org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext$SerializableInitialContext.newLdapContext(ExternalContext.java:468)
at org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext$SerializableInitialContext.newContext(ExternalContext.java:447)
at org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext$SerializableInitialContext.newContext(ExternalContext.java:433)
at org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext.rebind(ExternalContext.java:253)
at org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext.startService(ExternalContext.java:216)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:192)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:550)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:976)
at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:394)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:550)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy5.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:226)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:824)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:632)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:589)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:550)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy6.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:383)
at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:290)
at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:150)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:388)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
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Adrian,

Thanks for your replies !
Unfortunately, the weblogic class does NOT implement the upper interfaces, but directly javax.naming.Context.

I was also surprised by this. But the book i mentioned, describes a procedure to connect exactly to WLS. Apparently, the script provided is not complete and contains typos.

Any ideas how to proceed ?

Is there a way to contact you by phone or e-mail ?

Thanks for the support!

Adrian,
Thanks again for your reply !

1.Weblogic has a naming connetion factory:
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory

The problem is that it return directly Context, not InitialContext. And then everything goes wrong if i do :
==========

WLSContext
javax.naming.InitialContext
true
weblogic.properties

==========

and (as offered in the book):
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java.util.Hashtable ht = new java.util.Hashtable();
ht.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
ht.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"jnp://localhost:1099");
ht.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES,"org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");

initialContext = new InitialContext(ht);
InitialContext wlsContext = (InitialContext)initialContext.lookup("WLSContext");
==========

The last line of the code produces : ClassCastException.

2. Your suggestion to subclass ExternalContext. How easy is it to find it in the libraries of Jboss and how to plug it afterwards in the JBoss environment ?
Any ideas?

Regards,
~Nasko