On 8/10/06, Michael Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JNDI is next on my list to look at. I read about it somewhere around 6 months ago, but that was in a Tomcat context and I didn't see anything regarding encryption. Do you have any links/pointers for encrypted JNDI? I hadn't thought about the export issues (I'm very focused on my initial needs), but we could have a simple version for export if we included it (ROT13 anyone?).
JNDI is basically a way to look up a value from a service provider. Think of it as a remote hashmap. So you'd say something like "get the value of 'password' and it'd send you the password. How the password is stored in JNDI is implementation-dependent. In your case, you'd really want to ask for a datasource. It's up to the application server (generally the JNDI provider) to determine how to store the connection info for that database connection. Oracle App Server, for example, provides the option of storing the password either encrypted or in plain-text. How each JNDI server works is implementation dependent. So I can't really point you to generic encrypted JNDI docs. If you know what app server you're using, then you'd simply look up and see what it supports.
