Hi,

I'm trying to bind a session factory to a JNDI to get a database connection using a data source that I look up using the hibernate config file. But, the thing here is, the application runs as a jar i.e. outside a container/server. So, now my question is do I need any special entries in the config file? As I'm still new to Hibernate, I'm still not clear if I've to use <session-factory> or <session-factory name="xxxx">.
I get this error when I run the application:

org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not find datasource
at org.hibernate.connection.DatasourceConnectionProvider.configure(DatasourceConnectionProvider.java:56)
at org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory.newConnectionProvider(ConnectionProviderFactory.java:124)
at org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory.newConnectionProvider(ConnectionProviderFactory.java:56)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.createConnectionProvider(SettingsFactory.java:410)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:62)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2009)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1292)
Caused by: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:645)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:247)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:284)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
at org.hibernate.connection.DatasourceConnectionProvider.configure(DatasourceConnectionProvider.java:52)
... 14 more

Even if I get the right direction and not the perfect answer that would really help me a lot.
Thanks.

This is what I did. To get rid off all the errors I thought I would deploy it to the Weblogic server so that I don't have to take care of any of the JNDI properties. Later when everything works fine, I can run the application as a JAR outside the container. So, I deployed the application on my localhost (weblogic 10.x) and tried to run it. I've tried various properties in the config file and finally ended up with this error looking at which I feel I'm close to what I need. Below is the error:

org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not find datasource
at org.hibernate.connection.DatasourceConnectionProvider.configure(DatasourceConnectionProvider.java:56)
at org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory.newConnectionProvider(ConnectionProviderFactory.java:124)
at org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory.newConnectionProvider(ConnectionProviderFactory.java:56)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.createConnectionProvider(SettingsFactory.java:410)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:62)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2009)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1292)
at jsp_servlet.__index._jspService(__index.java:97)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:34)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:226)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:124)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:283)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.onAddToMapException(ServletStubImpl.java:394)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:309)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:26)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:42)
at org.apache.beehive.netui.pageflow.PageFlowPageFilter.continueChainNoWrapper(PageFlowPageFilter.java:455)
at org.apache.beehive.netui.pageflow.PageFlowPageFilter.runPage(PageFlowPageFilter.java:432)
at org.apache.beehive.netui.pageflow.PageFlowPageFilter.doFilter(PageFlowPageFilter.java:284)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:42)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3393)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(Unknown Source)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2140)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2046)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1366)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:200)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:172)
Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to lookup 'jdbc.DBdb2DS' didn't find subcontext 'jdbc'. Resolved ''; remaining name 'jdbc/DBdb2DS'
at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.newNameNotFoundException(BasicNamingNode.java:1138)
at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.lookupHere(BasicNamingNode.java:246)
at weblogic.jndi.internal.ServerNamingNode.lookupHere(ServerNamingNode.java:171)
at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.lookup(BasicNamingNode.java:205)
at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLEventContextImpl.lookup(WLEventContextImpl.java:254)
at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLContextImpl.lookup(WLContextImpl.java:367)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
at org.hibernate.connection.DatasourceConnectionProvider.configure(DatasourceConnectionProvider.java:52)
... 34 more

Here is my hibernate.config.xml:


Here is the code for my persistence class where I get an instance of a Sessionfactory. I read that the Hibernate takes care of the lookup process. So, just by invoking "buildSessionFactory()" gives me the sessionFactory? Or, do I need to explicitly lookup for the datasource here?


Thanks.