Chapter 8. Naming and Directory Services with JNDI

by Subramanian Kovilmadam

IN THIS CHAPTER

Walk into your local library and chances are you'll run into a card-based catalog system. This is a useful mechanism to look up the precise location of the book that you need, instead of browsing through the several racks of books without having a clue where to look. Modern libraries offer the same convenience by using a computer. The catalog provides us with several advantages. It makes accessing the book very easy, just by knowing the name of the book and/or the author. It also allows the library the flexibility to move the book from one rack to another with ...

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