I am trying to figure out the exact nature of the JNDI environment with regard to EJBs, JNDI names, initial contexts, local and remote settings, JVMs and networking.

I've got my stuff working but I would like to make sure I'm correct.

I have 2 EJBs. A stateless session facade and an entity. In my JBoss.xml I give them the JNDI names ejb/AdamsFacade and ejb/AdamsEntity

The remote client calls up the facade by initializing the InitialContext with a hashmap containing a value for the provider url of 'jnp://localhost:1099'

Then the remote client does this to get the RemoteHome:

initContext.lookup("ejb/AdamsFacade")

If my client was a servlet in a webapp running in an embedded tomcat, I don't have to initialize my InitialContext with anything, do I? I can then just get my RemoteHome by the following:

initContext.lookup("java:/comp/env/ejb/AdamsFacade")

Correct me if I'm wrong?! I didn't get it to work. Does it make a difference if the war is packaged in an ear with the EJBs or can it still do this when deployed seperately?

Also, am I right in assuming these JNDI principles are J2EE standard?

Thanks,
Adam