JNDI basic concepts

Naming is used by WAS applications and components to obtain references to objects they use. These objects are bound into a mostly hierarchical structure, referred to as a name space. You can access and manipulate the name space through a name server. Users of a name server are referred to as naming clients. Naming clients typically use JNDI to perform naming operations.

Naming
This topic describes naming, which is used by WAS applications and components to obtain references to objects they use.

Name space logical view
This topic describes a logical view of the name space for the entire cell.

Initial context support
This topic describes the default initial context, which is used as the first step for all naming operations.

Differences between JNDI and CORBA
This topic describes WAS's support for Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) object URLs as JNDI provider URLs and lookup names.