Mohamed Mostafa [https://community.jboss.org/people/mohamedmostafa] created the discussion "Context Lookup error" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/728891#728891 -------------------------------------------------------------- i will explain my project breifly I need to create a webservice which calls an EJB that execute a query on a sybase database this database is a datasource on glassfish server ( i am using Netbeans 7.1.1 ) i have created Stateless session EJB which i needs it to connect to the database using JNDI here is a part of the class @Stateless public class NewSessionBean implements NewSessionBeanLocal {     @Resource(name = "ejb")     private DataSource ejb;       @Override     public String execute(String query) {         String dbName = "java:comp/env/jdbc/ejb";         try {             Context loContext = (Context) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env");             ejb = (DataSource)loContext.lookup("jdbc/ejb");             Connection loConnection = ejb.getConnection(); and the glassfish.xml found in the configuration files of the EJB project is <glassfish-ejb-jar>   <enterprise-beans>     <ejb>       <ejb-name>NewSessionBean</ejb-name>       <resource-ref>         <res-ref-name>ejb</res-ref-name>         <jndi-name>jdbc/ejb</jndi-name>       </resource-ref>     </ejb>   </enterprise-beans> </glassfish-ejb-jar> when i run the code it always gives an error at that line Context loContext = (Context) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env"); i have tried many lookups like Context loContext = (Context) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/ejb"); HINT: my JNDI name i want to use is: jdbc/ejb always giving me that error Please anyone help me if anything still unclear i will provide you with all you need i need this solution urgently. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/728891#728891] Start a new discussion in JNDI and Naming at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]