JNDI InitialContext

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to obtain a jndi Context with the following method:
public static Context getInitialContext() throws javax.naming.NamingException {
          Properties props = new Properties();
          props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sap.engine.services.jndi.InitialContextFactoryImpl");
          props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "localhost:50004");
          Context jndiContext = new InitialContext(props);
          return jndiContext;
When I execute the code from an external client I get the following exception:
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate class: com.sap.engine.services.jndi.InitialContextFactoryImpl [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sap.engine.services.jndi.InitialContextFactoryImpl]
     at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:657)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:247)
Any ideas? Thanks,
Arne

Answer 1

Hi Arne,
Seems your client doesn't have the required jars on its classpath. You need the following: sapj2eeclient.jar, exception.jar, logging.jar from /usr/sap/<SID>/<instance>/j2ee/j2eeclient.
HTH!
-Vladimir