JBoss provides with org.jboss.naming.NamingAlias and org.jboss.naming.NamingService two nice features to create local links and integrate external jndi implementations. The jndi server implementation and the org.jboss.util.naming.Util (used in the ejb2.x & ejb 3 container) have some troubles with the bind, unbind and rebind operations.

It would be a nice feature when these operations are supported by the jboss jndi implementation but fixing org.jboss.util.naming.Util is maybe simpler.

The attached Junit test case shows the problems:

• jboss jndi and the utility seems to have problems with the alias
• jboss jndi seems to have problems with the external context (independent if it is ldap or jboss).