Hi, You may remember me from last week... I'm the one trying to deploy a Model-2 JCA-based Jackrabbit on JBoss 4.0.5 and then get the WebDAV servlets connecting via JNDI to the shared repository.
After sifting through the Jackrabbit source code I think I've solved the WebDAV deployment problem... If you take a look at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/tags/1.3/jackrabbit-webapp/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/j2ee/JNDIConfig.java it contains a method: public void init(ServletConfig ctx) throws ServletException { super.init(ctx); // add all params whose name starts with 'java.namming.' to the env Enumeration enum = ctx.getInitParameterNames(); while (enum.hasMoreElements()) { String name = (String) enum.nextElement(); if (name.startsWith("java.naming.")) { jndiEnv.put(name, ctx.getInitParameter(name)); } } // enable jndi if url is specified jndiEnabled = jndiEnv.containsKey("java.naming.provider.url"); } The last statement "activates" the JNDI configuration IF AND ONLY IF the " java.naming.provider.url" parameter has been specified. I've add the solution to http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/JackrabbitOnJBoss But it seems odd needing to specify the JNDI environment variables when deployed __inside__ JBoss. Hope it helps, Ijonas Kisselbach.
