Hi Christian, On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 at 21:57, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@apache.org> wrote: > I am surprised we still have JNDI in the code at all, but this made me > curious: > why do JEE users need JNDI features for logging? Why can't they just use the > normal log mechanism?
JNDI is basically a bean container/factory that allows Java EE applications to retrieve database connection pools, message queues or mail sessions (and remote code as a bonus). For the JMS appender, JNDI is essential. For the JDBC appender there is an alternative: DBCP2 can provide a database connection pool via a special connection string. The SMTP appender does not use JNDI as far as I remember. Of course there is an alternative to JNDI also in the Java EE world (CDI), but it doesn't work with simple servlet containers like Tomcat. Piotr
