When I do a LookUp from a Session bean, Is it necessary to provide factory and provider information to get the initial context? Can someone help me and if possible provide a CODE snippet please.

Thanks and eagerly looking for help.

hi ,
  which application server r u using that is important.
If u r using j2ee server then use
Properties p=new Properties(System.getProperties());
home = (ProductHome) ctx.lookup("ProductHome");

or else
if u r using weblogic 6.0 then use this
Properties p=new Properties();
p.putContext.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"weblogic.jndi.TengahInitialContextFactory");
 p.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"t3://10.100.100.119:7001");
 Context ctx = new InitialContext(p);
home = (ProductHome) ctx.lookup("ProductHome");

i hope this should work for u
bye
-kiran

Thanks for the information.

But I am still not clear about this question:
When I do a LookUp from a Session bean, Is it necessary to provide factory and provider information to get the initial context?

I was refering in respect to WebSphere.

Please reply,

No its is not neccessary to provide factory and provider information to get the initial context when doing a lookup from session bean or for that matter any serverside code
u can do this

Context ctx = getInitialContext();