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| /** | |
| * Provides the means for dynamically plugging in support for accessing | |
| * naming and directory services through the {@code javax.naming} | |
| * and related packages. | |
| * | |
| * <p> | |
| * This package defines the service provider interface (SPI) of the Java Naming | |
| * and Directory Interface (JNDI). | |
| * JNDI provides naming and directory functionality to applications | |
| * written in the Java programming language. It is designed to be | |
| * independent of any specific naming or directory service | |
| * implementation. Thus a variety of services--new, emerging, and | |
| * already deployed ones--can be accessed in a common way. | |
| * | |
| * <p> | |
| * The JNDI SPI provides the means for creating JNDI service providers, | |
| * through which JNDI applications access different naming and | |
| * directory services. | |
| * | |
| * | |
| * <h2>Plug-in Architecture</h2> | |
| * | |
| * The service provider package allows different implementations to be plugged in | |
| * dynamically. | |
| * These different implementations include those for the | |
| * <em>initial context</em>, | |
| * and implementations for contexts that can be reached | |
| * from the initial context. | |
| * | |
| * <h2>Java Object Support</h2> | |
| * | |
| * The service provider package provides support | |
| * for implementors of the | |
| * {@code javax.naming.Context.lookup()} | |
| * method and related methods to return Java objects that are natural | |
| * and intuitive for the Java programmer. | |
| * For example, when looking up a printer name from the directory, | |
| * it is natural for you to expect to get | |
| * back a printer object on which to operate. | |
| * | |
| * | |
| * <h2>Multiple Naming Systems (Federation)</h2> | |
| * | |
| * JNDI operations allow applications to supply names that span multiple | |
| * naming systems. So in the process of completing | |
| * an operation, one service provider might need to interact | |
| * with another service provider, for example, to pass on | |
| * the operation to be continued in the next naming system. | |
| * The service provider package provides support for | |
| * different providers to cooperate to complete JNDI operations. | |
| * | |
| * | |
| * <h2>Package Specification</h2> | |
| * | |
| * The JNDI SPI Specification and related documents can be found in the | |
| * {@extLink jndi_overview JNDI documentation}. | |
| * | |
| * @since 1.3 | |
| */ | |
| package javax.naming.spi; |