[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-4240) NameNotFoundException thrown when trying to read java:*/env context in Servlet container.

NameNotFoundException thrown when trying to read java:*/env context in Servlet container. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-4240 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4240 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Naming Affects Versions: 7.1.1.Final Environment: Windows7 Enterprise x64 Intel Core 2 Duo Oracle Java jdk1.6.0_29 Reporter: Robert Edgecombe Assignee: Stuart Douglas Fix For: 7.1.2.Final We have many J2EE 1.4 apps that need to be migrated from Oracle Application Server These applications rely on configuration using Environment Entries Most of the answers to issues I have read indicate that this is done using jboss-web.xml but this is not an acceptable solutin as it requires repackaging of the deployment artifact for different servers and different environments and is therefor contrary to the spirit (and I believe the letter) of the JavaEE spec. The documentation on this capability is either hidden or missing. I was tasked with working out how to use the JBOSS tools to configure these values and have been unable to do so. I modified the quickstart helloworld example to accept a value using the @Resource annotation and attempted to set this value using jboss-cli. After several attempts to guess how to do this I modified the servlet to walk down the context tree. This servlet throws a NameNotFoundException when trying to list the bindings at: * java:comp/env * java:app/env * java:module/env I have written the servlet to perform this walk in the following contexts: * Ithe initial context * java: * java:jboss * java:comp * java:module * java:app * java:global java:global seems to be able to accept values added using jboss-cli (not surprising) java:comp, java:module and java:app seem to return some of the expected values (eg ModuleName and AppName) but throw the exception when trying to list entries under */env The initial context and java: seem to display the entries added through jboss-cli Adding a Deployment descriptor (web.xml), that provides values for these entries, results in no entries that are visible through jboss-cli or any of the contexts listed in the servlet. I then ran the following command through jboss-cli and restarted the app /profile=full/subsystem=naming/binding=\/java\:app\/jboss-as-helloworld-ear\/env\/GREETING_TEXT:add(binding-type="simple",value="RE") This resulted in the same NameNotFoundException being thrown at java:app/env when walking the initial context as has been thrown all along when listing env in java:app It also resulted in java:app appearing in the java: context but being empty. Prior to running the add command, java:app did not appear in the initial context or java: context at all. I then ran the following command through jboss-cli and restarted the app /profile=full/subsystem=naming/binding=\/java\:module\/jboss-as-helloworld-ear\/jboss-as-helloworld\/env\/GREETING_TEXT:add(binding-type="simple",value="SJM") This resulted in the same NameNotFoundException being thrown at java:module/env when walking the initial context as has been thrown all along when listing env in java:module It also resulted in java:module appearing in the java: context but being empty. Prior to running the add command, java:module did not appear in the initial context or java: context at all. My conclusion is that my commands in jboss-cli may be the appropriate ones to add the correct entries but that the servlet cannot reach the java:module/env or java:app/env contexts that should be available to it according to the javaEE6 spec.