ServiceUnavailableException from a servlet

Question

Folks,
I have a servlet running in WL 5.1, sp6 that calls a remote
JNDI, LDAP service. The app works fine under tomcat and as
a standalone lookup in the LDAP directory, however under WL
I get the following exception:
"javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException [Root exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: Unknown protocol LDAP for lhrldap02.baplc.com/161.2.249.72]"
I've goofed around with the policy file thinking it could
be security/port related, but it appears not to be. Are
there any other configuration parameters that I need to
consider?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Rob

Answer 1

Hi,
Before starting the very first JSF page (and before
the JSF front controller is invoked) I must use a
servlet to read some parameters, init some objects
and then jump to the first JSF page. Some objects
that the bean generates must be saved in a JSF
managed bean.
The question is, how can I set those parameters in
the managed bean if it wasn�t still initialised ?
Code like this:
ApplicationFactory factory = (ApplicationFactory)
FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.APPLICATION_FAC
TORY);
Application app = factory.getApplication();
ValueBinding vb =
app.createValueBinding("#{AManagedBean}");
AManagedBean mb=  (AManagedBean)
vb.getValue(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance());     Fails with a null pointer exception (it seems to not
t be finding �AmanagedBean�).
you didn't even set the value, thats why you are getting a "null pointer exception". Try
vb.setValue(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), AManagedBean)
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Do you know how to set the properties in the
s in the managed bean ? Any comment or help would be
really welcome.
First set any properties of the "AmanagedBean" and then create the value binding in any of the scopes(request, seesion, application)
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Thanks in advance,
     - Juan