I am trying to put together a simple example, and run across this error:
WARNING: Could not bind factory to JNDI
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

I know this i s a warning, but in a bit then I get this error:
INFO: schema export complete
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
at org.hibernate.shards.session.ShardedSessionFactoryImpl.getCurrentSession(ShardedSessionFactoryImpl.java:288)

Of course hunting around I see that having a <session-factory name="shard1"> in my cfg.xml files means I am trying to bind something in JNDI. Of course i just want a simple stand alone example, where can I get a simple boot strapped JNDI tree, or can I turn this off somehow, or is there some good shards getting started guide that I missed that tells me to use some command line switch that hours of searching has failed to uncover.

Or do I just need to suck it up, and also have a JBoss process running.

Are you calling getCurrentSession() or is something else calling it?

That method really is unimplemented right now (I'll look into taking care of that for next release), and you should use ShardedSessionFactory.openSession() to get a session.

-Tomislav