JDBC JNDI INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY

Question

sigh
Still haven't gotten the hang of JNDI completely. Below's my code. I'm going to access a JDBC database. What INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY should I use? The file system one seems to be the wrong one. Does it matter that it's an MS Access database? Isn't there just some generic INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY for all JDBC databases?
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Why isn't there some handy list somewhere that shows the common INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORYs? Why do we have to hunt them down?
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Thanks,
Gary
public Connection getConnection(ClientSession clientSession) throws SQLException, NamingException, RemoteException
Properties env = new Properties();
InitialContext ic;
DataSource ds;
Connection connection;
env.setProperty(InitialContext.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory");
ic = new InitialContext(env);
ds = (DataSource)ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/"+getDataSourceName(clientSession));
connection = ds.getConnection();
return connection;

Answer 1

If you don't know what JNDI service you should be
using then you're in big trouble.
If you're developing code for a J2EE App Server or
Tomcat then the JNDI Service will already be running
in the Container and you need do no more than get the
env context and lookup the DataSource.
If you're developing a client app then you must know
the J2EE server that you're connecting to and so will
either be running in a ClientContainer or using a
jndi.properties file provided for you by the Server.
So what is it that you're trying to do?Write an RMI server that accesses a JDBC database. Instead of using DriverManager, I thought I'd give JNDI a whirl.
The client apps of my server might be servlets or a Swing app.