Tomcat Team: I have been working on an issue for the past few days and wanted to check with you guys if you have any suggestions on fixing this issue. My current technology stack is: windows 7, java 7/8, tomcat 8, axis2 1.6.3. I have an axis2 based web service that is very basic and it just connects to a database and reads some info and spits out the info it read. I have setup a JNDI resource for the datasource. In the service's init class's startup method, I am attempting to load the spring's ApplicationContext and thereby load the JNDI resource. All of this used to work well with the combination of java 7, tomcat 7.x axis2 1.6.3. Recently due to a need to upgrade to newer version of tomcat, I upgraded to tomcat 8. this resulted in "Name not found" exception. I ditched the spring's usage of finding jndi resource and used the initContext to lookup the JNDI resource and it worked fine. I have to use spring to find the JNDI context since most of our applications are already using spring and if i need to change every single one of them it is a tedious process. We also have a unix environment that I tested this with and I didn't find any issues there. i.e., I used spring to load the jndi resource, tomcat 8.x, java 7, axis2 1.6.3. Since this is a windows only issue, I tried to upgrade to Tomcat 9.x and that resulted in the same error. I have also posted this issue on the stackoverflow site but haven't had much luck finding a solution to the issue. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36207119/tomcat-8-axis2-webservices-aar-spring-jndi-not-bound-in-context
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Bhanu Lakkala
