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have no access to javax.naming.Context

I'm working with JBOSS AS 7.1.1. I have registered a datasource and I try to access it throught a JNDI in my OSGI bundle like : 

Context ctx = new InitialContext();

DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup(datasource_jndi_name);

but when i deploy my bundle to AS i get an exception: ClassNotFoundException: javax.naming.Context.

Context is defined in rt.jar, so i tried to wrap it in bundle and deploy it to AS but got the same error.

I tried to replace Context with InitialContext and got ClassNotFoundException: javax.naming.InitialContext.

Solution

  • Yepp, OSGi isolates that away. You an Import-Package for javax.naming. In addition you should probably use JNDIContextManager#newInitialContext() to create the initial context.