I am trying to store the javax.naming.Reference object
of a non-serializable class in the JNDI tree and retrieve
it later. Here is the step that I followed.

1. Made the class implement javax.naming.Referenceable interface.

2. Implemented the method getReference() as follows

    public Reference getReference()
    {
        StringRefAddr strRefAddr = new StringRefAddr("url", "t3://localhost:7001");
        Reference myRef = new Reference("NewSessionManager.BigCustomer", strRefAddr, "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory", "t3://localhost:7001");
        return myRef;
    }

3. I have rebind the object to the JNDI context.

4. To retrieve the object I have done the following step
         Reference myRef = (Reference) initial.lookup("mybigcustomer");

Now I have got the reference object. Could anybody please
help me in getting my BigCustomer object from this reference
object ?

Thanks,
Bijan

NewSessionManager.BigCustomer = (NewSessionManager.BigCustomer) ctx.lookup("bigcustomer");

Per the JNDI tutorial to do this via a Reference'd object you have to have a NewSessionManager.BigCustomer factory.

See http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/objects/storing/reference.html#EXAMPLE for more info.

I also think I have an example of this in the JNDI chapter for Professional Java Server Programming 2nd edition.

Mark

You should impl an ObjectFacotry to do this.

Hi Mark,

Thanks a lot for the help. I went to the link mentioned in your post. What I understood from the post was, ObjectFactory.getObjectInstance creates a new instance
of the object(in the case of example a new fruit object orange). Is there any way, I can get the the object that I
created earlier instead of creating a totally new object
and returning it ?

TIA

Bijan