Initialcontext in a standalone Java program

Question

I\'m using a JNDI for creating tomcat connection pool. It works great in a web application. I believe the InitialContext is provided by the tomcat server.

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Answer 1

There isn't a way to directly use the Tomcat Context Factory, see here for a little more documentation on the alternatives. But I recommend you try running a registry outside of Tomcat...

// select the registry context factory for creating a context
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContextFactory");

// specify where that factory is running.
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "rmi://server:1099");

// create an initial context that accesses the registry
Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);

You could change your code in Tomcat to also use this external RegistryContext and then both set(s) would be using the same JNDI provider. This question seems very similar.