Re: JNDI look up problem in sun java app server 8.1

Roman,

Did you try following,

ic.lookup("jdbc/books");

HTH
Mayuresh

Roman Isitua wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to JNDI and application servers. I have a
> sample web application that accesses
> data stored in postgresql that I want to deploy on the
> sun java application server 8.1.
> I believe I have followed the guidelines in sun java
> i.e register jdbc driver, create connection pool,
> jdbc resource. I have done this and i verified this by
> clicking the ping button and a success message
> was displayed. I am not sure but i think the problem
> is with my code:
>
> InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
>
> DataSource source =
> (DataSource)ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/books");
>
> connection = source.getConnection();
>
>
> each time i run the application i get the following
> exception
>
> javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: No object bound to
> name java:comp/env/jdbc/books
>
> at
> com.sun.enterprise.naming.NamingManagerImpl.lookup(NamingManagerImpl.java:751)
> at
> com.sun.enterprise.naming.java.javaURLContext.lookup(javaURLContext.java:156)
> at
> com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:307)
> at
> javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392)
> at
> com.deitel.advjhtp1.store.TitlesBean.<init>(TitlesBean.java:38)
>
> The name of the data source i configured in sun java
> is jdbc/books. I made sure that the database exists
> and can be accessed from a java application. I
> confirmed this by using the Drivermanager class.
>
> My question is where have I gone wrong? is it my code
> or am I missing something out in the
> configuration settings i made in sun java? some of the
> settings I made in sun java are as follows:
>
> datasource classname:
> org.postgresql.ds.PGSimpleDataSource
>
> resource type: javax.sql.connectionPoolDataSource
>
> Additional properties:
>
> datasourceName: jdbc/books
> user: postgres
> port:5432
> databaseName: books
> serverName: localhost
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Roman
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