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Provides the classes and interfaces for accessing naming services.
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<p>
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This package defines the naming operations of the Java Naming and
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Directory Interface&trade; (JNDI). &nbsp;
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JNDI provides naming and directory functionality to applications
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written in the Java programming language.  It is designed to be
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independent of any specific naming or directory service
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implementation.  Thus a variety of services--new, emerging, and
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already deployed ones--can be accessed in a common way.
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<h2>Context</h2>
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This package defines the notion of a <em>context</em>, represented
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by the <code>Context</code> interface.
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A context consists of a set of name-to-object <em>bindings</em>.
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<code>Context</code> is the core interface for looking up, binding, unbinding,
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and renaming objects, and for creating and destroying subcontexts.
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<code>lookup()</code> is the most commonly used operation.
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You supply <code>lookup()</code>
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the name of the object you want
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to look up, and it returns the object bound to that name.
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For example, the following code fragment looks up 
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a printer and sends a document to the printer object
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to be printed:
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<blockquote>
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Printer printer = (Printer)ctx.lookup("treekiller");
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printer.print(report);
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</pre>
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</blockquote>
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<h2>Names</h2>
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Every naming method in the <code>Context</code>
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interface has two
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overloads: one that accepts a 
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<code>Name</code> argument and one that accepts a string name.
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<code>Name</code> is an interface that represents a generic 
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name--an ordered sequence of zero of more components.
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For these methods, <code>Name</code> can be used to represent a
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<em>composite name</em> (<code>CompositeName</code>)
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so that you can name an object using a name which spans multiple namespaces.
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The overloads that accept <code>Name</code>
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are useful for applications that need to manipulate names: composing
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them, comparing components, and so on.
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The overloads that accept string names are likely to be more useful
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for simple applications, such as those that simply read in a name
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and look up the corresponding object.
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<h2>Bindings</h2>
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The <code>Binding</code> class represents a name-to-object binding.
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It is a tuple containing the name of the bound object,
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the name of the object's class, and the object itself.
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The <code>Binding</code> class is actually a subclass of
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<code>NameClassPair</code>, which consists
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simply of the object's name and the object's class name.
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The <code>NameClassPair</code> is useful when you only want
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information about the object's class and do not want to
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pay the extra cost of getting the object.
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<h2>References</h2>
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Objects are stored in naming and directory services in different ways.
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If an object store supports storing Java objects, 
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it might support storing an object in its serialized form.
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However, some naming and directory services do not support the
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storing of Java objects. Furthermore, for some
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objects in the directory, Java programs are but one group of applications 
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that access them. In this case, a serialized Java object might
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not be the most appropriate representation.
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JNDI defines a <em>reference</em>, represented by the <code>Reference</code>
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class, which contains information on how to construct a copy of the object.
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JNDI will attempt to turn references looked up from the directory
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into the Java objects they represent, so that
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JNDI clients have the illusion that what
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is stored in the directory are Java objects. 
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<h2>The Initial Context</h2>
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In JNDI, all naming and directory operations are performed relative
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to a context. There are no absolute roots.
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Therefore JNDI defines an <em>initial context</em>, 
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<code>InitialContext</code>,
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which provides a starting point for naming and directory operations.
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Once you have an initial context, you can use it to
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look up other contexts and objects.
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<h2>Exceptions</h2>
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JNDI defines a class hierarchy for exceptions that can be thrown in
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the course of performing naming and directory operations.  The root of
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this class hierarchy is <code>NamingException</code>.
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Programs interested in dealing with a particular exception
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can catch the corresponding subclass of the exception.
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Otherwise, programs should catch <code>NamingException</code>.
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<h2>Package Specification</h2>
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The JNDI API Specification and related documents can be found in the
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{@extLink jndi_overview JNDI documentation}.
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@since 1.3
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