I am stuck using OC4J as an application container and need to pass in extra parameters to the JNDI InitialContext at the time of DataSource look up.
in addition to java.naming.factory.initial and java.naming.provider.url I need to pass java.naming.security.principal and java.naming.security.credentials.

I look at the way Hibernate looks up the InitialContext and it strips everythign out except for factory and url. Is there a way to feed the System.getProperties() into the InitialContext? Is there a way to override NamingHelper with an interceptor? The reason for System.getProperties() is we have a single properties file that is loaded at the time of appserver boot up and all of these properties are already provided.

I can provide a jndi.properties for each application, but that will be less than optimal during the deployment, as deployment people will need to unwrap each war and modify those properties files per deplooyment environment.

Thanks

Dmitry

Hibernate version:
2.1

Ok, figured it out.
I missread the code in NamingHelper, thats where all fo the confusion startred for me.
I am just reading in the System.getProperties(), get them into the shape that hibernate expects and add them to the Configuration prior to calling configuration.configure() on it.