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Naming Interface

The Naming Interface provides a way to relate human-readable names with addresses, identifiers, or other objects used by computer systems. This allows you to provide a name, such as a filename in a directory system, and have the corresponding file object returned to you for processing. The naming interface in use determines the form of the name that must be supplied. For instance, a UNIX-based file directory will have names in the form /usr/bin, whereas an Internet DNS will have names in the standard http://www.sun.com form. A naming interface can be anything from a local directory service to an entity on the Internet.

To use the naming interface of the JNDI, you will need to import the javax.naming package:

|javax.naming package ...