What Is JNDI?
JNDI is a unified Java API designed to standardized access to a variety of naming and directory services. This abstract mechanism is what makes J2EE an attractive enterprise architecture for Internet and intranet applications. Applications are written in a standard way to use the JNDI API, which transparently calls the underlying naming or directory service. A JNDI-compliant service must implement part of the JNDI API. Here is a brief description of the two parts that make up the JNDI architecture:
An application-level programming interface (API). APIs are used by the application components to access naming and directory services.
A service provider interface (SPI). This part of the API is used to plug in a provider of a naming ...
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