WildFly Naming Client

This simple JNDI/naming client library abstracts away some of the pain of JNDI by providing the following features:

• Federation support
• Class loader based provider extensibility
• A replacement implementation of the jboss-remote-naming protocol
• Abstract context implementations for supporting relative contexts and federation in custom naming providers

Usage

To use the WildFly naming client provider, the naming client initial context has to installed. This can be done in one of several different ways.

System property

If you set the system property java.naming.factory.initial to org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyInitialContextFactory, then your Java code to access an initial context is just:

    InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
    Blah blah = (Blah) ctx.lookup("foo:blah");

Environment property

You can also set the java.naming.factory.initial property on the environment. This property name is also found in the constant field javax.naming.Context#INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY.

    Hashtable<String, Object> env = new Hashtable<>();
    env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyInitialContextFactory");
    InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(env);
    Blah blah = (Blah) ctx.lookup("foo:blah");

Programmatic installation

You can re-set the default inital context factory builder using a standard naming API.

    NamingManager.setInitialContextFactoryBuilder(new WildFlyInitialContextFactoryBuilder());
    // later...
    InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
    Blah blah = (Blah) ctx.lookup("foo:blah");

Direct instantiation

You can bypass the standard discovery mechanism and go directly to the WildFlyInitialContext.

    InitialContext ctx = new WildFlyInitialContext();
    Blah blah = (Blah) ctx.lookup("foo:blah");

Remote naming

In order to associate an initial context with a specific (possibly remote) naming service, a naming provider URL is required. This is done in the standard way using the java.naming.provider.url property, found in the constant field javax.naming.Context#PROVIDER_URL.

    Hashtable<String, Object> env = new Hashtable<>();
    env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyInitialContextFactory");
    env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "remote+https://nowhere.example.edu:8080");
    InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(env);
    Blah blah = (Blah) ctx.lookup("foo:blah");

This property can also be specified as a system property.

Unlike the previous jboss-remote-naming project, the connection to the peer is not requested until an operation is performed on the connection, and all consumers of the same remote URL will share a connection. The connection lifecycle is independent of any Context instances which reference it.

Using the context

Multiple services can be looked up via the same context. To register providers, implement the org.wildfly.naming.client.NamingProvider interface and register the implementation using the approach described in the java.util.ServiceLoader documentation.

Maven

Find this artifact under the Maven coordinates org.wildfly:wildfly-naming-client.