Why ctx.lookup(name) differenct bw sessionbean and entityBean for DBconnec

Question

i want to get dbconnection other than entity bean, in entity bean,
the connection is got from the datasource, which built under the clause as
String dbName = "java:comp/env/jdbc/CustomerDB";
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup(dbName);
however, the "dbName" is different completely from session bean processing,
it has to be
String dbName = "jdbc/Cloudscape";
my question is :
why the same context object, has to use different key to get the same DataSource
object?
thanks for tips
best regards,
Frederick Van TaGero

Answer 1

You can access env. in two ways
1.
// Obtain the enterprise bean�s environment naming context.
Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context ic= (Context)initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup("jdbc/Cloudscape");
or full as
String dbName = "java:comp/env/jdbc/CustomerDB";
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup(dbName);