I think I figured out what was wrong. The global should be mail/whatever. I can still use context lookup. Problem solved.
-----Original Message----- From: Phillip Qin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 25, 2004 12:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: GlobalNamingResources I setup a GlobalNamingResoruces entry in server.xml <Resource name="mail/whatever" auth="Container" scope="Shareable" type="javax.mail.Session"/> <ResourceParams name="mail/whatever"> <parameter> <name>mail.smtp.host</name> <value>mail.whatever.com</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> I then added resourcelink in my webapp's context.xml <ResourceLink name="mail/whatever" global="java:comp/env/mail/whatever" type="javax.mail.Session"/> First problem that I have is, if I do a context lookup, Tomcat complained about not finding the binding, something like java:comp not bound. What I did is Context initialContext = new InitialContext(); Context context = (Context) initialContext.lookup("java:comp/env"); <= failed here return (Session) context.lookup("mail/whatever"); The I realized I should use globalnamingcontext. So I changed the above code to StandardServer server = (StandardServer) ServerFactory.getServer(); <= failed here Context context = server.getGlobalNamingContext(); return (Session) context.lookup("mail/whatever"); Now, the error message is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/ServerFactory com.shareowner.core.services.mailservice.MailService.findMailSession(MailSer vice.java:36) com.shareowner.core.services.mailservice.MailService.send(MailService.java:6 5) com.shareowner.onlinestore.services.beanservices.AuthLogService.sendEmail(Au thLogService.java:43) com.shareowner.onlinestore.services.beanservices.TxnLogService.log(TxnLogSer vice.java:33) com.shareowner.onlinestore.services.creditcardservices.CreditCardService.wri teAuthLog(CreditCardService.java:356) com.shareowner.onlinestore.services.creditcardservices.CreditCardService.pos t(CreditCardService.java:214) com.shareowner.onlinestore.services.creditcardservices.CreditCardService.pos tToServer(CreditCardService.java:276) com.shareowner.onlinestore.actions.PlaceOrderAction.placeOrder(PlaceOrderAct ion.java:81) com.shareowner.onlinestore.actions.PlaceOrderAction.performPostValidationAct ion(PlaceOrderAction.java:50) com.shareowner.onlinestore.actions.BaseAppAction.execute(BaseAppAction.java: 122) org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProces sor.java:484) org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274) org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482) org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) com.shareowner.core.filters.HttpsFilter.doFilter(HttpsFilter.java:39) ServerFactory is in ${catalina_home}/server/lib/catalina.jar, so there is no reason why class loader can't find the class. Any idea on how do I access the GlobalNamingResource from my webapp? Approach 2 works with Tomcat Manager. Regards, PQ Going to war for peace is like having sex for virginity !DSPAM:41a61a69240991588114867!
