7.3. JNDI terms and concepts
There is a whole jargon associated with JNDI. Some of the key terms are described in this section.
Name: Anything that identifies an object uniquely on a given server. Names are vendor-specific: Most product vendors use the ‘/’ as a separator between atomic names, where each atomic name indicates a context (part of the hierarchy). In the rest of this chapter, I will assume that the JNDI implementation uses ’/’ as a separator. JNDI implementation vendors supply classes that convert their particular name format to JNDI’s internal representation (described below).
Atomic name: The smallest single units into which a name can be divided. For example, in the name ‘jdbc/orders,’ ‘jdbc’ and ‘orders’ are atomic names.
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