MySQLjDBCDataModel with JNDI

[Amrhal Lelasm]

Hi, 
I've been playing with Mahout for a while and I'm now trying to use a 
preference data from a database. So far I've been running Mahout using ant as a 
normal java application outside of any web container. My question is, if  I can 
use JNDI to connect to the database in this scenario?  From what I've read so 
far, it seems I should run my application inside a web container like tomcat to 
use JNDI. Is this right? 
Thanks.