[Jason Price]

This is somthing really simple that I just can’t get to work. I’m sure I’ve done it before but I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong!

I’m trying to send an email from an EJB using the java:\Mail context that jboss 4 sets up. I have configured the mail-service.xml file and when jboss starts I get

[MailService] Mail Service bound to java:/Mail

when I access it in the ejb like this:

Context ctx = new InitialContext();
Session ses =(Session)ctx.lookup("Mail");

I get the following exception in the jboss logs

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Mail not bound

has anyone got any ideas?
Its got to be something simple I’m missing but googling about hasn’t turned up anything useful.

[Riyad Kalla]

Shot in the dark, but have you tried:
/Mail

I ask because in this link:
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/JDCBook/lookup.html

They bind an EJB to the context using a name like “registration” then later look it up with exactly the same name… so I wonder if Mail is bound via “/Mail”. There is also that prefix you sometimes see “/java/env” for JNDI entities, although I don’t know when/where to use it. Hibernate seems to need it when I specify a JNDI context…

[a_debona]

Hi there,

i am completely new to JBoss and I also wanted to be able to send emails… i understand that we need to change the mail-service.xml
and get the mail handle from JNDI … My question is what API is the Session object belong to ? javax.mail ? It is not part of JBoss api’s ?

Did you have to import the J2EE.jar from Sun ?

[a_debona]

Okay.. i found it… all i had to do was add the mail.jar to the server/default/lib directory and then my
import of javax.mail.* worked… it just wasn’t in the classpath of Eclipse project..

[a_debona]

correction above.. i just had to add the mail.jar in the server/default/lib directory to my eclipse project java build path

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