1/ When you start the NamingService for the first time, with no
Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY property, everything works fine. The default
value is null.

2/ When you stop the NamingService, the property is then "", and not null.

3/ If you want to restart the NamingService, the "oldValue" isn't null and so
it's used. So, the NamingService doesn't start.

This is my solution, in the start method:

oldValue = System.getProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
if (oldValue != null >>>>>>>> && oldValue.length() > 0 <<<<<<<<<) {
   oldIcValue = oldValue;
} else {
   System.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, Constants.Package 
     + ".java.javaURLContextFactory");
}

Now, when you start + stop + start the NamingService, the service works fine.


Frederic