Hello I am running Apache Jetspeed Portal server (which sits on top of Tomcat) as a development platform. We then deploy portlets to Websphere portal server for production.
One area of incompatibility that I would like to fix is JNDI branches. Tomcat provides the standard java:comp/env/ branch, but IBM have a couple of other branches (e.g. /cells/persistent/... and /services/...) that don't have the usual java:comp/env/ prefix. As JNDI paths specified in /conf/context.xml automatically get the prefix added, these JNDI paths won't work on Tomcat/Jetspeed. I have an application level fix that works, but developers need to use a specific class to do JNDI access (and regularly forget to do so). So I would like implement the other JNDI branches in Tomcat itself. It would be nice if this could be done as a plug-in module, but I am happy to hack the Tomcat source code if necessary. My impression is that I would need to provide a new naming context to implement this. Can anyone point me at some documentation or give me some ideas on how I could implement these paths? Regards Ron
