What does java:comp/env/ do?

Question

I just spent too much time of my day trying to figure out some errors when hooking up some JNDI factory bean. The problem turned out to be that instead of this...

Answer 1

There is also a property resourceRef of JndiObjectFactoryBean that is, when set to true, used to automatically prepend the string java:comp/env/ if it is not already present.