Accessing JNDI Context from outside Tomcat

[Swaminathan Gurumoorthy <sw...@yahoo.com>]

I am trying to do some standalone unit testing on my business logic layer from outside Tomcat . I am hitting across a snag and I am relatively new to JNDI.
 
Within my application I do a 
initCtx = new InitialContext();

 and Tomcat creates me a initial context for lookups. Now I did some reverse engineering and found out the parameters that Tomcat uses to configure the initial context.

Based on that, I wrote standalone code to create a initial context:

Hashtable env = new Hashtable();

env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory");

env.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES,"org.apache.naming");

Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);

 

If I run this I get 

javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate class: org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory. Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory.

Is there no way to access JNDI resources set up in Tomcat from outside? Is there a provider URL that I need to use? If yes, what is the value?

TIA

Swami



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