How do I define the initial context factory in shiro.ini?

Question

In my Shiro application, I am using the JndiRealmFactory to define my realms. I Register my realms like this:

Hashtable<String, String> args = new Hashtable<>();
args.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.apache.openejb.client.LocalInitialContextFactory");
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(args);
ctx.bind("realms/MyRealm", myRealm);

However, Shiro cannot find realms/MyRealm. I think the reason is, that I Need to define the JndiRealmFactory's jndiEnvironment, which contains the Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY property. However, I don't know how to set this property in my shiro.ini:

realmFactory.jndiEnvironment = ?

I am running my application on TomEE.

My current shiro.ini looks like this:

realmFactory = org.apache.shiro.realm.jndi.JndiRealmFactory
realmFactory.jndiNames = realms/MyRealm

Answer 1

you are not supposed to bind at runtime anything in the EE context. You can probably define it in tomcat as a resource or resources.xml (tomee specific) then just use a standard lookup to read the value (no special properties passed to InitialContext.