[Springframework-developer] SimpleNamingContext should be usable with other providers around

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

I was trying to use SimpleNamingContext in a J2EE envioronment, but it 
this is not possible since it registers itself in the activate call
  NamingManager.setInitialContextFactoryBuilder(this);

All I want is a simple memory based jndi provider. If there existed a 
SimpleNamingContextFactory class (essentially the same as what is 
produced by createInitialContextFactory in the builder, then I could use 
it as a secondary JNDI provider:
      Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
      env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, 
SimpleNamingFactory.class.getName());
      InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(env);

Now all I want to do is stick a few objects in a well know location (and 
they're not serializable so I can't use normal JNDI, but I am in the 
same vm, so barring some classloading issues, a singleton mechanism of 
any sort is fine).

So if I could use a singleton beanfactory in the same fashion, that 
would also be ok. As far as I can tell though, the BootStrap method to 
get a singleton bean factory will return one that is loaded from the 
classpath. I know I could cast it to ListableBeanFactoryImpl, but that 
doesn't feel too clean...