Configuring Mail Session for Orion

[rastin purr]

Hi,
Does anyone know how to configure orion such that i get a Mail session returned when calling lookup method form initial context? I don't seems to find a mail.xml file under the config directory. Any sites that have orion information would be great.
Hopefully i get answered.
Thanks
Ras

[christoph weingarten]

if you are trying to send mails from within an orion-application you can use mail.jar.
or did i misunderstood your question?

[rastin purr]

hi sni,
thanks for the answer.
I wanna know how to get a mail session from initial context (jndi)
for example
InitialContext ic=new InitialContext();
Session s=ic.lookup(mail/MyMail); /*this return the mail session*/
I know it could be done in jboss and many other j2ee container out there. Please help if you can
Thanks again

[christoph weingarten]

you can add resources for jndi-lookups in your ejb-jar.xml
here is an example:
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.
<!-- my EntityBean -->
<entity><display-name>MyEJB</display-name>
.
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<!-- database -->
<resource-ref><res-ref-name>jdbc/mydb</res-ref-name><res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
<!-- simple String -->
<env-entry><env-entry-name>lifetime</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>60000</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>
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</entity>
maybe it's allowed to add mail as a ressource. but i am not sure about that.
[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: sni ]

[christoph weingarten]

hi rastin,
try this:
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>mail/Mail</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>

[Michael Matola]

sni,
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Thanks for fielding questions!
Michael

[christoph weingarten]

@michael:
done