On 17/01/2013 14:02, e e wrote:
> Can anyone please provide me this information please..... Sorry for being
> persistent!!
>
> I am still not clear why a URLStreamHandlerFactory is required for JNDI!!!
It isn't.
> I thought Context.lookup() is what the web-apps will do!
They do.
> Why would the web-apps want to use a new URL("jndi://....");
They don't.
> Where/why does tomcat have to use jndi URLs to fetch resources??
Where? Everywhere Tomcat wants to access a web application resource.
Why? Because many years a decision was taken or provide an abstraction
based on the JNDI interface to access resources to support alternative
resource implementations to the standard WAR and directory ones provided
by Tomcat
> Can you please elaborate on "It is because Tomcat uses "jndi://..." for
> handling web application resources".
See above.
Mark
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