Re: Environment Variable Reading

[Tim Endres]

> I could not see any indication that it is allowed in the JNDI specs.
>
> A flat namespace is defined as one which does not contain or link to
> other namespaces, so by definition java: is a flat namespace. Yet, being
> flat it still needs to support these types of lookups.

In fact, the JDNI toolkit specifically includes classes that help the
SPI programmer to parse and traverse names. And in that toolkit, the
name "" always refers to "this context".

tim.
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