Query reg Tomcat connection pool

[Sakthivelmurugan Kg]

Hi All,

Can i run a stand alone java class(but which is included in my web application) to get a datasource for the tomcat connection pool? when i try to run the java cliass(its main method), i am getting the following exception:

javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial

Can someone help me to solve this error?

Thanks & Regards,
Sakthi

[Tim Holloway]

I don't know what you mean by running a stand alone java class. Normally, classes in a web application are invoked by the application server. If you're trying to do something like this:

java -jar C:/tomcat/webapps/myapp.war com.myco.webapp.StandAlone

Then you're not really running "in" the webapp, just using the war as though it was a jar. And, since the JNDI registry is built and controlled by the Tomcat server, but you're not running in the server, there's no registry to be found.

[Joe Ess]

I've done this kind of thing to get to Weblogic EJB's from stand-alone applications. One has to specify an initial context factory, server URL and server credentials.
I don't know if Tomcat makes it's JNDI accessible like Weblogic does. Google pointed me to this guy who looks like he's got a number of the settings right, but still cannot look up a JNDI resource.

[Tim Holloway]

As far as I know, Tomcat doesn't publish its JNDI registry on a port. At least by default. So the only way to get the root context is via the Tomcat internal classpath.

WebLogic would have had problems not publishing its registry, since that's how remote apps lookup the EJBs. Since Tomcat doesn't support EJBs, they don't need that ability.

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