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EJB design: Difference between Context & Initialcontext?

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  1. Difference between Context & Initialcontext? (4 messages)

    • Posted by: Shyam PRASAD
    • Posted on: August 22 2000 07:37 EDT
    What is the difference between Context & Initialcontext?
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  2. Difference between Context & Initialcontext?[ Go to top ]


    Context is the root of the JNDI namespace maintained by the server. Use the InitialContext constructor to get the same.
    Bhavesh Bhammar
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  3. Difference between Context & Initialcontext?[ Go to top ]

    Context is the collection of namespaces ( resources ) found anywhere in the net. It could be a printer, a LDAP server,
    a DNS server or a Remote Object.
    IntialContext is the starting point to obtain a reference to any of the namespaces or resources.
    JNDI uses contextfactory and a provider url to locate any namespace.

    Magesh.
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  4. nothing[ Go to top ]

    Nothing
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  5. Difference between Context & Initialcontext?[ Go to top ]

    Ok, I would like to give a comparison from another view.

    1. Context is an interface which is a part of JNDI specification while InitialContext is a class which implements Context!

    2. InitialContext is Sun's reference implementation class
    of Context. In other J2EE-compatible products, there may/maynot be InitialContext class.

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