Ahh.. sweet. Thanks Stuart. Found a good piece of Wildfly code I was able to follow: https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/blob/master/mail/src/main/java/org/jbo... Looks like I got it to work using something like that :) --John Mazz ----- Original Message ----- > Looks like your extension is being initialised before JNDI. There are two > options: > > - Create a custom service that depends upon the appropriate naming > subsystem services (namely > DefaultNamespaceContextSelectorService.SERVICE_NAME), and do the > bind/unbind in the services start/stop method. This will make sure the > naming subsystem is up before the bind takes place. > > Stuart > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 at 08:37 John Mazzitelli <mazz(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > I have a custom subsystem extension I'm deploying in Wildfly 8.2. I hit a > > problem when trying to bind an object to JNDI. > > > > In my AbstractAddStepHandler.performRuntime() (the Subsystem Add > > handler), I want to bind an object to JNDI, like this: > > > > InitialContext initialContext = new InitialContext(); > > WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.pushOwner(context.getServiceTarget()); > > try { > > initialContext.bind(jndiName, jndiObject); // <--- this sometimes > > throws exception you see below > > } finally { > > WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.popOwner(); > > } > > > > where "context" is the first parameter passed to the performRuntime() > > method, and "jndiName" is "java:global/example/demo/myname" and > > "jndiObject" is just a java.lang.String, like "hello". > > > > The use of WritableServiceBasedNamingStore is recommended on the wiki: > > https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY8/JNDI+Reference - though I > > have no idea what it is doing :) > > > > The problem is - each time I start my wildfly server, sometimes it works, > > other times it doesn't. It is as if there is a race condition somewhere on > > startup of the wildfly server. If it works, my JNDI object is bound > > properly; when it fails, this bombs with the exception I show below. > > > > Anyone know what the problem is and how to fix? > > > > ==== > > > > javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in > > environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an > > application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial > > at > > javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662) > > [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] > > at > > javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:313) > > [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] > > at > > javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:350) > > [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] > > at javax.naming.InitialContext.bind(InitialContext.java:425) > > [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] > > at org.demo.extension.SubsystemAdd.performRuntime( > > SubsystemAdd.java:153) > > at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractAddStepHandler$1.execute( > > AbstractAddStepHandler.java:75) [wildfly-controller-8.2.0. > > Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] > > at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeStep( > > AbstractOperationContext.java:660) [wildfly-controller-8.2.0. > > Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] > > at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext. > > doCompleteStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:501) > > [wildfly-controller-8.2.0.Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] > > at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext. > > completeStepInternal(AbstractOperationContext.java:298) > > [wildfly-controller-8.2.0.Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] > > at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext. > > executeOperation(AbstractOperationContext.java:293) > > [wildfly-controller-8.2.0.Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] > > at org.jboss.as.controller.ParallelBootOperationStepHandl > > er$ParallelBootTask.run(ParallelBootOperationStepHandler.java:354) > > [wildfly-controller-8.2.0.Final.jar:8.2.0.Final] > > at > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) > > [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] > > at > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) > > [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.8.0_31] > > at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122) > > [jboss-threads-2.1.1.Final.jar:2.1.1.Final] > > _______________________________________________ > > wildfly-dev mailing list > > wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfly-dev > > >