The Role of JNDI in Clustered Environments
In a clustered environment, naming services are even more valuable. A client of a service must be able to look up a ProductCatalog session bean from the cluster without needing to know which machine it resides on. Whether it is a large clustered service, a local resource or an application component that is needed, the JNDI naming service provides the glue that lets code find the objects in the system by name.