Creating External Resources
To create an external resource:
- In the left pane of the Admin Console, open the Sun Java System Application Server instance for the JNDI configuration to be modified.
- Open JNDI and select External Resources. If any external resources have been created already, they are listed in the right pane. To create a new external resource, click New.
- In the JNDI Name field, enter the name that is to be used to access the resource. This name is registered in the JNDI naming service.
- In the Resource Type field, enter a fully qualified type definition, as shown in the example above. The Resource Type definition follows the format,
xxx.xxx
.
- In the JNDI Lookup field, enter the JNDI value to look up in the external repository. For example, when creating an external resource to connect to an external repository, to test a bean class, theJNDI Lookup can look like this;
cn=
testmybean.
- In the Factory Class field, enter a JNDI factory class external repository, for example,
com.sun.jndi.ldap
. This class implements the javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory
interface.
- In the Description field, enter a description for the resource to be created. This description is a string value and can include a maximum of 250 characters.
- Mark the External Resource Enabled checkbox, to enable the external resource.
- Click OK to save the external resource.
asadmin command equivalent: create-jndi-resource
.
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