This page provides a starting point for finding information about naming support. Naming includes both server-side and client-side components. The server-side component is a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) naming service (CosNaming). The client-side component is a Java™ Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) service provider. JNDI is a core component in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) programming model.
The WebSphere® JNDI service provider can be used to interoperate with any CosNaming name server implementation. Yet WebSphere name servers implement an extension to CosNaming, and the JNDI service provider uses those WebSphere extensions to provide greater capability than CosNaming alone. Some added capabilities are binding and looking up of non-CORBA objects.
Java EE applications use the JNDI service provider supported by WebSphere® Application Server to obtain references to objects related to server applications, such as enterprise bean (EJB) homes, which have been bound into a CosNaming name space.
WebSphere Application Server Versions 5 and 6.0.x support foreign cell bindings, but support is limited to a single bootstrap address and you cannot configure foreign cell bindings in the console. The single bootstrap address used in Versions 5.x and 6.0.x has been deprecated, replaced in Version 6.1 and later by a list of bootstrap addresses.