Thank you for the answer. I have had gone thru it before asking question and after. If there is a specific area that you want me to look at let me know.
If anyone has had this direct global JNDI access need could you share that info ? A hack, a round about. I dont have access to the source code that is doing direct JNDI access and how to configure Tomcat to allow to do that. -Narahari On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Gurkan Erdogdu <cgurkanerdo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Please have a look > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html > > Thanks; > > --Gurkan > > 2010/3/18 Narahari 'n' Savitha <savith...@gmail.com> > > > Friends: > > > > I have the following setup. > > > > A Jar file with a class called DBConnectionUtil that reads a specific > > string > > for lookup "jdbc/windsDS". > > > > This jar is being used inside of Websphere7 and it works fine. > > > > Inside of Tomcat 6, the same context look up for the jndi of jdbc/windsDS > > does NOT work. > > > > Tomcat expects > > > > Context parentcontext = new InitialContext(); > > Context childContext = parentcontext.lookup("java:comp/env"); > > Datasource ds = childContext.lookup("jdbc/windsDS"); > > > > All the xml entries are right since the above snippet works. > > > > I want to make the direct global look up aka jdbc/windsDS to work. > > > > Context parentcontext = new InitialContext(); > > Datasource ds = context.lookup("jdbc/windsDS"); > > > > Is there a way to do jndli direct global lookup ? > > > > -Narahari > > > > > > -- > Gurkan Erdogdu > http://gurkanerdogdu.blogspot.com >