BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed
by Mark Artiges, Gupreet Singh Bhasin, Bernard Ciconte, Malcolm Garland, Saranathan Govindarajan, James Huang, Subramanian Kovilmadam, Kunal Mittal, Paul J. Perrone, Tom Schwenk, Steve Steffen
Java Naming and Directory Interface
Sun Microsystems defines JNDI as “a standard extension to the Java platform, which provides Java technology-enabled applications with a unified interface to multiple naming and directory services in the enterprise. As part of the Java Enterprise API set, JNDI enables seamless connectivity to heterogeneous enterprise naming and directory services.” JNDI has been designed especially for Java. A Java application can use JNDI to retrieve Java objects. JNDI also provides for performing standard directory operations, such as associating attributes with objects and searching for objects using their attributes.
JNDI is an interface, not an implementation. It can be used to seamlessly integrate with different, possibly ...
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