Use JNDI

You can use the JNDI API to support the Java components you deploy on WebSphere Application Server- Express. Specifically, you use the JNDI API to locate and refer to resources such as data sources and JavaMail sessions within a distributed computing environment.

The process of using JNDI to access enterprise-level Java components involves these steps:

1. Obtain the initial JNDI context for the component
   This topic describes how to obtain an initial JNDI context that contains the resource (a Java object).

2. Use JNDI to look up Java components
   This topic explains how to look up resources such as data sources and JavaMail sessions.

After you have completed these steps, you can use the enterprise resource (such as a data source) in your code exactly as you would if Java object had been available locally.