JNDI

[Vishnu Prakash]

I keep getting this Exception

Exception Caught: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate class: com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory]

Which means "the classpath for the JNDI program does not contain the JNDI server classes:"

I don't understand what they mean by "JNDI server classes".

I had included j2ee.jar from J2EE RI in classpath.

I followed this tutorial
http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/10933_2215571_4.

Kindly help me with this.

[Ulf Dittmer]

This page makes it sound as if the file system context implementation that you are trying to use is not part of the JNDI that comes with J2SE/J2EE. Follow the "Download JNDI 1.2.1 & More" link to get to a page where you can download it separately.
[ January 04, 2006: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[Vishnu Prakash]

Thanks for the link and the explanation Ulf Dittmer. That was really helpful.

I got one doubt with the classpath for fscontext.jar file.

I had never included

C:\jdk\lib\tools.jar;
C:\jdk\jre\lib\rt.jar;

These two jar in my classpath. JRE just picks them up.

As per the instruction in the link which you gave me I downloaded the fscontext.zip file and placed fscontext.jar and providerutil.jar in

C:\jdk\jre\lib\ext folder.

Why JRE is NOT picking these jar files?
Only after including these jar files in my classpath, the program is executing with out the previously stated error.