What to use for INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY for Sun AppServer Platform Ed 8x

Question

I've got an external java JMS client trying to connect to Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 2005Q1 and I need to know what to use for the Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY (and what jar it's in) plus the PROVIDER_URL for the following code:
Properties p = new Properties();
p.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, ????);
p.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, ????);
Context ctx = new InitialContext(p);
QueueConnectionFactory qcf = (QueueConnectionFactory)ctx.lookup(factory);

Answer 1

I experienced similar problems while trying to create a Message Driven Bean
and send a message to it from a standalone client program.
After much guddling around (and finally finding some helpful information in
the App Servers Troubleshooting Guide) I managed to get this to work by doing
the following:
     1) Including the following jars at client compile time:
          appserv-rt.jar
          j2ee.jar
     2) Including the following jars at client run time:
          appserv-rt.jar
          j2ee.jar
          appserv-admin.jar
          imqjmsra.jar
     3) Passing in the following arguments at client run time:
          -Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost=localhost
          -Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort=3700
     4) Creating the context using the no-arg InitialContext method � i.e.
          Context ctx = new InitialContext();
     Note that this method picks up the initial context factory
     as com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory from
     a jndi.properties file in appserv-rt.jar.
I have included my client code below FYI.
import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.ConnectionFactory;
import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.MessageProducer;
import javax.jms.Queue;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import java.util.Date;
* @author dlowe8
public class JmsTest2 {
/** Creates a new instance of JmsTest2 */
public JmsTest2() {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Connection c = null;
try {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
String factoryJndiName = "jms/ConnectionFactory";
String queueJndiName = "jms/Queue";
System.out.println("Factory JNDI Name = " + factoryJndiName);
System.out.println("Queue JNDI Name = " + queueJndiName);
     ConnectionFactory cfa = (ConnectionFactory)ctx.lookup(factoryJndiName);
     c = cfa.createConnection();
Session s = c.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
Queue q = (Queue)ctx.lookup(queueJndiName);
MessageProducer producer = s.createProducer(q);
TextMessage m = s.createTextMessage();
m.setText("Helloooo from standalone program at " + new Date());
producer.send(m);
s.close();
Object o = ctx.lookup(factoryJndiName);
System.out.println("Factory object class [" + o.getClass().getCanonicalName() + "]");
o = ctx.lookup(queueJndiName);
System.out.println("Queue object class [" + o.getClass().getCanonicalName() + "]");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (c != null) {
try {
c.close();
} catch (JMSException e) {}
System.exit(0);
}