Context is read only

Question

Helo masters, I have to create a JNDI Datasource dynamically, I tried to do it with a listener called SetupApplicationListener. Here is the beginning of WEB-LIB/web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee">

    <display-name>pri-web</display-name>

    <!-- Listeners -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>myapp.SetupApplicationListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

The code of the listener:

public class SetupApplicationListener implements ServletContextListener {

    public static Log LOG = null;

    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent ctx){
        try {            
            createOracleDataSource();
.....
        }
    }

    private void createOracleDataSource() throws SQLException, NamingException {
        OracleDataSource ds = new OracleDataSource();
        ds.setDriverType(...);
        ds.setServerName(...);
        ds.setPortNumber(...);
        ds.setDatabaseName(...);
        ds.setUser(...);
        ds.setPassword(...);

        new InitialContext().bind("java:comp/env/jdbc/myDS", ds);
    }

.....
}

And there is the error:

[ERROR] 29/01/2013 09:44:50,517 (SetupApplicationListener.java:86) -> Error
javax.naming.NamingException: Context is read only
    at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.checkWritable(NamingContext.java:903)
    at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.bind(NamingContext.java:831)
    at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.bind(NamingContext.java:171)
    at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.bind(NamingContext.java:187)
    at org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.bind(SelectorContext.java:186)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.bind(InitialContext.java:359)
    at myapp.SetupApplicationListener.createOracleDataSource(SetupApplicationListener.java:102)

Can I set the read-only properties of the Context to "true"? Thanks! :)

Tomcat 6.0
Oracle 11g
jdk1.5

EDIT: Don't need to be dynamically, i have to define a jndi datasource internally I can't modify the server files because it is a shared server. It must be jndi because other modules use it in that way, thanks.

Answer 1

If you need to create a datasource dynamically is there really any need for a JNDI lookup? JNDI is designed to make the connection external to the application, while in your scenario its tightly coupled to the application due to a legitimate requirement. Why not just use a JDBC connection?

Answer 2

You need to create a ServletContextListener and there you can make the InitialContext writable - it's not the way it should be done, but if you really need it, this is one way you can do it.

This also works with Java Melody!

protected void makeJNDIContextWritable(ServletContextEvent sce) {
    try {
        Class<?> contextAccessControllerClass = sce.getClass().getClassLoader().loadClass("org.apache.naming.ContextAccessController");
        Field readOnlyContextsField = contextAccessControllerClass.getDeclaredField("readOnlyContexts");
        readOnlyContextsField.setAccessible(true);
        Hashtable readOnlyContexts = (Hashtable) readOnlyContextsField.get(null);
        String context = null;
        for (Object key : readOnlyContexts.keySet()) {
            String keyString = key + "";
            if (keyString.endsWith(sce.getServletContext().getContextPath())) {
                context = keyString;
            }
        }
        readOnlyContexts.remove(context);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}