Head First Ejb -- Sample Program Exception

[ashok ganesan]

hi everyone,
i m using headfirst ejb and trying to run a sample program . As given in the book i deployed my application in java server when i run my client class file i got an exception like this...

E:\projects\advice>java AdviceClient
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environmen
t or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource f
ile: java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source)
at AdviceClient.go(AdviceClient.java:19)
at AdviceClient.main(AdviceClient.java:13)

being a new to ejb i couldnot understand what the exzception is and how to resolve it .... if someone could help me out of it.


thanks in advance
ashok

[ashok ganesan]

my program is
import javax.naming.*;
import java.rmi.*;
import javax.rmi.*;
import javax.ejb.*;
import headfirst.*;
import java.lang.*;


public class AdviceClient
{
public static void main(String[] arg)
{
new AdviceClient().go();
}
public void go()
{
try{
Context ic = new InitialContext( );
Object o = ic.lookup("AdviceBean"); <--- error occurs hereAdviceHome home = (AdviceHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(o,AdviceHome.class);
Advice advisor = home.create();
System.out.println(advisor.getAdvice());


}catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

}

[Sumit Malik]

Hi Ashok Ganesan,

The runtime error which is thrown by your code is because you haven't defined default JNDI properites in your client jar.
Other way around to this problem is that you can explicity set JNDI properties thorugh Initial Context though its inefficient approach. Do set JNDI properties in code and then try to run you code.... I hope these links would help you in better way....

JNDI reference


Go through these links and hopefully you will get solution of your problem....

Cheers !!!
Sumit Malik
Sun JNDI reference

J2EE JNDI reference

[ashok ganesan]

hi ,
as per the previous link i made changes in my program but i couldnot get the jndi.jar file which has the com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory class . i tried dowmloading file from sun site . but jndi 1.2.1 and jndi 1.1.2 donot have those files. with only those class files in my classpath i could run my program .

thanks
ashok

[Sumit Malik]

Hey Ashok which app server you are using for your application. If you are using glassfish(from SUN) then you can use appserv-rt.jar(you can find this jar in the lib directory of installed glassfish) in your client lib. This jar contains com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory class ..... Did you set jndi.properties in your client classpath ???

Do make these changes and try to run you application


Cheers !!!
Sumit MAlik

[Naveen Kumar]

Hi Ashok

R you using WSAD or different IDE.

Regards
kumar

[Naveen Kumar]

Hi

If you are using WSAD i will tell how to configure JNDI in EJB.

Regards
kumar