JNDI from Tomcat

[Darryl L. Pierce]

I've a servlet running on Tomcat. In it is functionality to do
authentication and account maintenance for users, but I would like to break
that functionality out of the servlet and put it into EJBs running on
JBoss.

So, the question is, has anybody experience with configuring Tomcat to
access EJBs on a separate machine via JNDI? I've done some web searches and
found nothing so far today...

 

[Steve W. Jackson]

:I've a servlet running on Tomcat. In it is functionality to do
:authentication and account maintenance for users, but I would like to break
:that functionality out of the servlet and put it into EJBs running on
:JBoss.
:
:So, the question is, has anybody experience with configuring Tomcat to
:access EJBs on a separate machine via JNDI? I've done some web searches and
:found nothing so far today...

I'm not accessing EJBs, but I am having a Tomcat-hosted Web service (not
servlet) make JNDI calls. What I did was set up a properties file
that's in the classpath of Tomcat that's read by my service when it's
started or reloaded. A servlet can do this in its init() method, which
I've got in my Web service (JAX-RPC, if anybody cares) by virtue of
implementing the ServiceLifecycle interface. The file contains the
required properties for JNDI, namely the java.naming.factory.initial and
java.naming.provider.url properties that it needs for communing with the
directory.

HTH.

= Steve =

 

[Darryl L. Pierce]

I'm not accessing EJBs, but I am having a Tomcat-hosted Web service (not
servlet) make JNDI calls. What I did was set up a properties file
that's in the classpath of Tomcat that's read by my service when it's
started or reloaded. A servlet can do this in its init() method, which
I've got in my Web service (JAX-RPC, if anybody cares) by virtue of
implementing the ServiceLifecycle interface. The file contains the
required properties for JNDI, namely the java.naming.factory.initial and
java.naming.provider.url properties that it needs for communing with the
directory.

Where did you place the properties file within Tomcat's directory structure?
Also, what JARs did you have to include (if you are using JBoss) in Tomcat
to fulfill the class dependancies?