About Question enthuware.oce-ejbd.v6.2.539 :

[deadlock_gr]

The second answer (marked as wrong) says:

It allows an enterprise bean to modify its environment properties without knowing about them at the development time.

The explanation says:

This is wrong because a bean cannot change its environment. It gets whatever the assembler/Deployer gives to it.

Although I agree the answer is wrong, I think that the explanation is wrong. The bean can change its environment overriding what the assembler / deployer have set by using InitialContext.rebind().
Is this correct or not?
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/doc ... ntext.html

[admin]

A container is only obligated to provide a read only namespace. Context.rebind() is not guaranteed to work.
HTH,
Paul.

[garfield]

Can someone please elaborate on option 4. What does it mean "locate external information without prior knowledge of how the information is named and organized" ?

[admin]

It basically means that you do not need to hardcode the names in your code. A bean can look up information from the JNDI namespace dynamically. The data in the JNDI itself can be changed by external systems.

[himaiMinh]

In the explanation, what does ISV stands for? I could not find it from the spec.

[admin]

Independent Software Vendors.