[jboss-as7-dev] JNDI Bindings

[David M. Lloyd]

On 07/20/2011 07:31 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
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> Can somebody enlighten me?
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> What JNDI namespaces are allowed for explicit JNDI bindings  (i.e datasources, resource adapters)
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> Looking at the docs it seems that you could either chose 'java:global/<xyz>' or 'java:jboss/<xyz>'.
> Whereas the 'java:module' and java:app' namespaces seem to be reserved implicit bindings.
> Is that correct?

Not exactly.  The reason that "java:module/" and "java:app/" are not 
available at the global configuration level is that every deployment has 
their own distinct instance of these namespaces (more or less; all 
modules within an EAR share the "app" namespace), just as every 
component has its own "java:comp/" namespace (more or less; there's some 
goofy extra rules about servlets that exist for historical purposes).

For now we only allow binding to global namespaces from global 
configuration.  It is conceivable that we could allow binding to 
per-app/module/comp namespaces too, someday, _if_ someone had a good 
enough reason for it (I can't think of one myself).

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- DML