what's the use of InitialContext?

[Viv Gupta]

Hi All,

I want to know what's the use of InitialContext? what happens when we write

InitialContext context = new InitialContext()

[ujjwal soni]

The javax.naming.InitialContext class implements the Context interface and serves as our entry point to a naming system. To use JNDI to access objects in a naming system, you must first create an InitialContextobject. The InitialContext constructor takes a set of properties, in the form of a java.util.Hashtable or one of its subclasses, such as a Properties object. Here is how we created an InitialContext in the Lookup example:

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory");
props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "file:///");

// Create the initial context from the properties we just created
Context initialContext = new InitialContext(props);


Regards,

Ujjwal Soni

[Lave Kulshreshtha]

Refer to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/javax/naming/InitialContext.html

-Lave