Why aren't any properties loading from jndi.properties?

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I'm creating a web application (WAR) for a server running a Java 1.5
VM. Although I have verified that my file, jndi.properties, is part
of my WAR file (file located within the classes directory), this code

InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
final String val = (String) ctx.lookup(property);
LOGGER.info("lookup " + property + "=" + val);

fails to retrieve any properties (for each lookup, a null is returned
every time). What am I missing? I thought the documentation said
that as long as I included jndi.properties somewhere in my classpath,
I would be able to read properties from the file --
http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/beyond/env/source.html ?

Thanks for any advice, - Dave

 

[markspace]

every time). What am I missing? I thought the documentation said
that as long as I included jndi.properties somewhere in my classpath,
I would be able to read properties from the file --
http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/beyond/env/source.html ?

That documentation, to me, says that resources on the class path are
located, but I don't see where it says that about the JNDI server itself:

"The JNDI automatically reads the application resource files from all
components in the applications' classpaths and
JAVA_HOME/lib/jndi.properties..."

"automatically reads the application resource files" is the key.
Resource files are located, JNDI is not. That line follows about 5
lines of configuration for JNDI, so I assume you need something like
that to locate and instantiate the server connection.

Do you have such a configuration? Where is it (file and sub-dirs/WAR
paths)? What's in that config file?