javax.naming.NamingException: Failed to initialize the ORB exception

[Atul Mishra]

All,

I am getting the above exception while trying to call my EJB from a web application deployed on Sunone web server 7.0. The EJB is developed using websphere 6.0 and I have my WAS 6.0 client jar files added in the server.

The confusing part is this: I tried to create a simple java program calling the same EJB, and the java program runs fine.

Only the web portion fails by giving the above exception.

I have these two lines added in both my simple java program code and also in the ActionClass.

properties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory");

properties.put("org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass","com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.ORB");

Action class fails while doing the look up and simple Java program works fine.

Any thoughts will be helpful

Thanks
Atul

[Paul Clapham]

It doesn't seem likely to me that the SunOne server would support a naming factory whose class name starts with "com.ibm.websphere".

[Atul Mishra]

Thanks Paul for your suggestion.

So how do we access the EJB which was developed using websphere 6.0 using the Action classes running in sun one web server 7.0 ?

Thanks
Atul

[Paul Clapham]

I don't really know.

When I use JNDI, even in Websphere, I don't specify any class for the initial context factory. I suppose by not doing that I am just allowing the system to use its default class. But I don't use EJB or CORBA so it may not be that simple there. I would just take out that line of code for a start and see what happens.