Because if you are running your servlet within orion then the default properties are fine (set by orion). You only need to supply a properties file if you are changing the defaults for the environment. Dave Smith Senior Team Leader Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Eric Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2000 8:54 To: Orion-Interest Subject: Orion primer I followed the orion primer and got the example to work. What I don't understand is the following code in the servlet: // Get the initial JNDI context Context context = new InitialContext(); // Get a reference to the Hello interface Object boundObject = context.lookup(helloHomeLocation); HelloHome helloHome = (HelloHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(boundObject, HelloHome.class); How is the initial context acquire without all passing in a Hashtable or Properties object? thanks, eric
