JndiException when using Hibernate 4.0 with Tomcat 7 and JSF 2.0

Question

After the application deploye, when method is execute , i am getting below error.

Caused by: org.hibernate.service.jndi.JndiException: Unable to lookup JNDI name [java:comp/env/JSF_HIBER/ORACLE]
    at org.hibernate.service.jndi.internal.JndiServiceImpl.locate(JndiServiceImpl.java:68)
    at org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DatasourceConnectionProviderImpl.configure(DatasourceConnectionProviderImpl.java:116)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:75)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:159)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:131)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcServicesImpl.buildJdbcConnectionAccess(JdbcServicesImpl.java:223)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcServicesImpl.configure(JdbcServicesImpl.java:89)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:75)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:159)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:131)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:77)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2283)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2279)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1748)
    at com.utils.HibernateUtils.<clinit>(HibernateUtils.java:19)
    ... 33 more
Caused by: javax.naming.NamingException: This context must be accessed through a java: URL
    at org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.parseName(SelectorContext.java:776)
    at org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.lookup(SelectorContext.java:135)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source)
    at org.hibernate.service.jndi.internal.JndiServiceImpl.locate(JndiServiceImpl.java:65)
    ... 47 more

Context.xml

<Resource name="JSF_HIBER/ORACLE" auth="Container"
    type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
    username="****" password="**** driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
    url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@99.99.999.999:1521:xe" />

hibernate.cfg.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.datasource">java:comp/env/JSF_HIBER/ORACLE</property>
        <property name="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer">false</property>
        <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">10</property>
        <property name="show_sql">true</property>
        <property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>
    <mapping class="com.entity.User"/>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Web.xml

<resource-ref>
        <description>JSF_HIBER</description>
        <res-ref-name>JSF_HIBER/ORACLE</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
    </resource-ref>

i don't know why i am getting this error, please help me...

Answer 1

You must add a slash between "java:" and "comp" in the hibernate.cfg.xml file :

<property name="hibernate.connection.datasource">java:/comp/env/JSF_HIBER/ORACLE</property>

It will probably solve the issue

Answer 2

You'll probably need the following in the META-INF/context.xml to link your global JNDI resources to the application specific ones:

<Context>
  <ResourceLink name="JSF_HIBER/ORACLE"
            global="JSF_HIBER/ORACLE"
            type="javax.sql.DataSource"
</Context>

which links your global datasource JSF_HIBER/ORACLE to your local one java:comp/env/JSF_HIBER/ORACLE .

EDIT:

If you don't want to create an application level link, you can use the global url instead:

<property name="hibernate.connection.datasource">JSF_HIBER/ORACLE</property>