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Administration Guide 19-1
CHAPTER
19Managing JNDI
The following sections describe how to manage JNDI:
n “Overview of JNDI Management” on page 19-1
n “Viewing the JNDI Tree” on page 19-2
n “Loading Objects in the JNDI Tree” on page 19-2
Overview of JNDI Management
You use the Administration Console to manage JNDI. The JNDI API enables
applications to look up objects—such as Data Sources, EJBs, JMS, and
MailSessions—by name. The JNDI tree is represented by the left pane in the
Administration Console.
For additional information, see Programming WebLogic JNDI at
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs61/jndi/index.html.
What Do JNDI and Naming Services Do?
JNDI provides a common-denominator interface to many existing naming services,
such as LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and DNS (Domain Name
System). These naming services maintain a set of bindings, which relate names to
objects and provide the ability to look up objects by name. JNDI allows the
components in distributed applications to locate each other.