[jboss-user] [JNDI and Naming] - JNDI lookup fails in load-on-startup servlet Jboss as7

abiya [http://community.jboss.org/people/abiya] created the discussion "JNDI lookup fails in load-on-startup servlet Jboss as7" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/640713#640713 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I am able to perform JNDI lookup using the following code in any of my servlet as follows, DataSource ds = null; Context ctx = null; try {         String strDSName = "java:jboss/datasources/Test";         ctx = new InitialContext();         ds = (javax.sql.DataSource) ctx.lookup(strDSName); } catch (Exception e) { } *But the same code fails if it is invoked from init() method of load-on-startup servlet.* My datasource is bound well before this.My console says, 13:26:06,881 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-2) Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/weblogic.jdbc.jts.demopool] *web.xml entry* ---------------------   <servlet>         <servlet-name>StartupServlet</servlet-name>         <servlet-class>com.metreo.common.web.servlet.StartupServlet</servlet-class>         <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>     </servlet> *servlet code* ----------------- public class StartupServlet extends HttpServlet {    /**     * init method     */     public void init(ServletConfig a_config) throws ServletException     { super.init(a_config);         System.out.println("StartupServlet.init() called.");      try {    InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();    DataSource ds = (javax.sql.DataSource) ctx.lookup("java:jboss/datasources/weblogic.jdbc.jts.demopool");    System.out.println("context info in StratupServlet init method...."+ds);    callStartupClasses();   } catch (NamingException e) {    // TODO Auto-generated catch block    e.printStackTrace();   }             } Please help me resolving this issue. I am stuck with this for a long time. Thanks, Abiya -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/640713#640713] Start a new discussion in JNDI and Naming at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]