How to lookup a bean from a standalone app.

Question

I've got the following question..
I've created a stateless sessionbean and deployed it in the J2EE Server 1.3.1. (That one you get from Sun when you download the J2EE SDK) I've created a client for my bean, and when i execute it with the 'runclient -client my.ear -name myclientclass' command, it works just fine.
But, i now want to run it as a standalone application, without the 'runclient' command. I am able to create an initialcontext (without any properties), but my bean can not be found in 'java:comp/env/ejb/bean' (the same name i use with the 'runclient' command, so the bean should be there). My guess is that i should add some initial context properties, but which ones? All the examples i can find are with ldap context factories. Can anyone give me any advice on how to connect to the J2EE server and lookup my bean?
Thanks in advance.
Nick

Answer 1

Hi,
You could write something as below
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "jnp:localhost:1099");
env.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs","org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
try {
Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);
Session_LocalHome session_lh = (Session_LocalHome) ctx.lookup("Session_Home");
Session_ session_ = session_lh.create();
OR
Use a jndi.properties file which would have the same entries as above, please search over internet and find out what to include in it.
One more thing to note is, in above example i said
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "jnp:localhost:1099");
meaning the lookup is on port 1099, this is not same for all the servers. Check your server documentation and find out " What is the port number on which your server listens ? "
Regards
Meka Toka