Contexts
Contexts provide a hierarchical structure to JNDI names, and composite names group together related names. The initial context provides a top-level view of the namespace and any sub-contexts reflect the hierarchical composite name structure.
Listing Contexts
The namespace represents contexts as names, and you can look these up just like any other name. You can obtain a listing of the names in a context by using Context.list(). This method provides a list of name and class bindings as a javax.naming.NamingEnumeration, where each element in the enumeration is a javax.naming.NameClassPair object. Listing 3.5 shows a simple program to list the names and classes for the example sams sub context.
Listing 3.5. Full Text of JNDIListSAMS.java ...
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