[jboss-as7-dev] JNDI integration question

[David Bosschaert]

On 23/01/2012 12:02, Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 12:58 PM, David Bosschaert wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking at integrating the OSGi JNDI spec [1] with AS7.
>> Implementations of this spec (which exposes OSGi services via JNDI to
>> allow JavaEE integration) create a few javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory
>> instances to handle some additional namespaces, e.g. osgi:service lookups.
>>
>> To get this working with AS7 I can call
>>      org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext.addUrlContextFactory(scheme,
>> myObjectFactory)
>> and that works fine.
>>
>> However, I'm curious, is there a non-JBoss-specific way to do this too
>> (i.e. part of the JEE naming spec). If there is, I can make the Apache
>> Aries OSGi-JNDI implementation call this directly and it would avoid the
>> need for some AS7-specific glue code...
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/jndi/tutorial/beyond/url/initctx.html
>
Thanks Carlo.

 From that it seems that the only way to do this in a standard manner is 
by putting the relevant packages on the java.naming.factory.url.pkgs 
system property. The system attempts to instantiate a class in those 
packages. This is not modular by design and will not work.

Seems like those 5 lines of glue code are inevitable. It's not a big 
problem, thanks for pointing this out.

Cheers,

David