0.43: What are references? (brief description)

References are logical names used to locate external resources for enterprise applications. References are defined in the application's deployment descriptor file. At deployment, the references are bound to the physical location (JNDI name) of the resource in the target operational environment. WebSphere Application Server supports the following types of references:

The container makes references available in a JNDI naming subcontext. By convention, references are organized as follows: