A critical component of facilitating resource access is a naming service. A naming service provider, such as a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server allows resources to be registered within a registry, and later discovered and retrieved by a client. The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) service provides a unified API to access the underlying naming service provider. JNDI provides a naming context as an abstraction of the underlying naming registry.
GlassFish implements a built-in naming environment (known as a naming context). Upon server startup, GlassFish loads all the resource definitions in the configuration file, domain.xml, and registers their names in the naming context. This context object also provides methods for managing the name bindings.
GlassFish provides a JNDI browsing facility in the Admin Console to quickly browse all the entries registered in the naming service. To use this feature, follow these steps:
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