Context Implementation

A context implementation class implements the Context interface and is responsible for handling almost all requests.

The user program accesses a context implementation in two ways:

1. Indirectly via method invocation on the InitialContext class

2. Directly via method invocation on Context instances, obtained by calls such as Context.lookup()

A context implementation must provide a definition for each method in the Context interface.

These methods can be categorized as follows:

1. Lookup
2. List (Enumeration)
3. Update
4. Name parser
5. More...

See also: miscellaneous tips