How to obtain PROVIDER_URL in the bean

Question

I want to get access in my bean to the Context.PROVIDER_URL property which
was used by the client to create the initial context.
I know the ejbContext.getEnvironment() method is deprecated so I tried the
following:
javax.naming.InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
String sURL =
(String)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/"+javax.naming.Context.PROVIDER_URL);
This gives me a null back. What am I doing wrong?
Or is there another way to get the provider url inside the bean code?
Ashish P. Narvekar
email: [email protected]

Answer 1

Ashish,
FWIW, this is how we're doing it...
InputStream inp =
ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("weblogic.properties");
if(inp != null)
Properties env = new Properties();
env.load(inp);
String icf = env.getProperty("databroker.initialContextFactory");
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, icf);
String url = env.getProperty("databroker.providerUrl");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, url);
entCtx = new InitialContext(env);
We then use entCtx to lookup the home interface. This allows us to "soft code"
our icf and url values in the weblogic.properties file. To my knowledge, nothing
here is deprecated. If anyone knows differently, please let me know.
Guy :)
Jim Zhou wrote:
You probably need to do:
javax.naming.InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext("t3"//host:port");
new InitialContext() will only works when client and server are in the same
JVM.
Regards,
Jim Zhou.
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I want to get access in my bean to the Context.PROVIDER_URL property which
was used by the client to create the initial context.
I know the ejbContext.getEnvironment() method is deprecated so I tried the
following:
javax.naming.InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
String sURL =
(String)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/"+javax.naming.Context.PROVIDER_URL);
This gives me a null back. What am I doing wrong?
Or is there another way to get the provider url inside the bean code?
Ashish P. Narvekar
email: [email protected]