Sample usage of jndi-lookup

[umark]

I need to lookup a JMS connection factory from jndi
and inject the connection factory into another bean
(a JMS Template).

I can do this manually in Java; however, I'd like
to use j2ee:jndi-lookup bean configuration support.

I am not clear on how to use this from the Appendix
A2.3.1 of Spring tutorial.

This is what I have:

  <bean 
        id="jmsFactory"
		class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory"
                  p:brokerURL="tcp://localhost:61616"
    />
 
    <bean 
	id="messageDispatchTemplate"
		class="org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate"
		   p:connectionFactory-ref="jmsFactory"
    />

I would like to convert this to something like (I hope):

   <jee:jndi-lookup id="jmsFactory" jndi-name="jms/AmqConnectionFactory"/>

   <bean 
	id="messageDispatchTemplate"
		class="org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate"
		   p:connectionFactory-ref="jmsFactory"
    />

I am assuming that the syntax I have given the second snippet above
is approximate - if this syntax would work as is, I'd be delighted;
of course, in this case, I would like to know how Spring figures
out the type of "jmsFactory".

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

/U

[Marten Deinum]

The type is determined at injection-time, it tries to cast/convert the jmsFactory to the correct type. On the jee:jndi-lookup you can also specify an proxy-interface so then it will (also) try to check the type when doing the lookup.

[Rick Evans]

Hi umark

I have updated the relevant section of the Spring reference documentation with some examples of dependency injecting the value of the 'jee:jndi-lookup' bean... hopefully it is clearer now.

Cheers
Rick