[ARIES-515] Exceptions being hidden when thrown by InitialContextFactory from a Builder

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.3
• Component/s: JNDI
• Assignee: Alasdair Nottingham
• Reporter: Alasdair Nottingham
• Created: 13/Dec/10 13:29
• Updated: 13/Dec/10 13:54
• Resolved: 13/Dec/10 13:54

Description

A common use of JNDI is to perform authentication against an LDAP registry of users. This typically works by going new InitialDirContext(props) where the props contains a userid/password. This requires the AuthenticationException to be thrown from the InitialDirContext constructor. When used with the default JNDI implementation what actually happens is you get a NoInitialContextException because the creation of the Context fails and if the ICF was created from an ICFB then the exception is swallowed rather than rethrown.

Alasdair