javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name is not bound in this Context. Unable to find

Question

I\'m trying to find out why my web application throws a

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name [flexeraDS] is not bound in this Context. Unable to find [f         


        

Answer 1

Ok found out the Tomcat file server.xml must be configured as well for the data source to work. So just add:

<Resource 
auth="Container" 
driverClassName="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver" 
maxActive="20" 
maxIdle="10" 
maxWait="-1" 
name="ds/flexeraDS" 
type="javax.sql.DataSource" 
url="jdbc:derby:flexeraDB;create=true" 
  />

Answer 2

ugh, just to iterate over my own case, which gave out approximately the same error - in the Resource declaration (server.xml) make sure to NOT omit driverClassName, and that e.g. for Oracle it is "oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver", and that the right JAR file (e.g. ojdbc14.jar) exists in %CATALINA_HOME%/lib

Answer 3

You can also add

<Resource 
auth="Container" 
driverClassName="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver" 
maxActive="20" 
maxIdle="10" 
maxWait="-1" 
name="ds/flexeraDS" 
type="javax.sql.DataSource" 
url="jdbc:derby:flexeraDB;create=true" 
/> 

under META-INF/context.xml file (This will be only at application level).

Answer 4

In Tomcat 8.0.44 I did this: create the JNDI on Tomcat's server.xml between the tag "GlobalNamingResources" For example:

<GlobalNamingResources>
    <!-- Editable user database that can also be used by
         UserDatabaseRealm to authenticate users
    -->
  <!-- Other previus resouces -->
    <Resource auth="Container" driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver" global="jdbc/your_jndi" 
    maxActive="100" maxIdle="20" maxWait="1000" minIdle="5" name="jdbc/your_jndi" password="your_password" 
    type="javax.sql.DataSource" url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/your_database?user=postgres" username="database_username"/>
  </GlobalNamingResources>

In your web application you need a link to that resource (ResourceLink):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context reloadable="true" >
		 <ResourceLink name="jdbc/your_jndi"
	 				global="jdbc/your_jndi"
	 				auth="Container"
	 				type="javax.sql.DataSource" />
</Context>

So if you're using Hiberte with spring you can tell to him to use the JNDI in your persistence.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
	version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">
	<persistence-unit name="UNIT_NAME" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
		<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>

		<properties>
			<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" 		value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
			<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL82Dialect" />
			
			<!--  <property name="hibernate.jdbc.time_zone" value="UTC"/>-->
			<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />
			<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="false" />
			<property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>     
		</properties>
	</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

So in your spring.xml you can do that:

<bean id="postGresDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
			<property name="jndiName" value="java:comp/env/jdbc/your_jndi" />
		</bean>
   		
        <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
              <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="UNIT_NAME" />
              <property name="dataSource" ref="postGresDataSource" />
              <property name="jpaVendorAdapter"> 
              	 	<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
              </property>
        </bean>

Look above that entityManagerFactory bean refers to your UNIT_NAME configured at persistence xml and the bean postGresDataSource has a property that points to your JNDI resource in Tomcat.

<property name="jndiName" value="java:comp/env/jdbc/your_jndi" />

In this example I used spring with xml but you can do this programmaticaly if you prefer.

That's it, I hope helped.