Use of JNDI in GeoNetwork

The only use of JNDI is in the Z39.50 Client. The JZKit library expects to find its list of collections in JNDI; the initZ3950() method of the class org.fao.geonet.kernel.search.SearchManager puts it there.

Note: the file src/jndi.properties in the GeoNetwork distribution is not used.

JNDI services are provided by the library tyrex-1.0.jar. It is this JAR file that contains the jndi.properties file that is currently being used.

If in future it is desired to make wider use of JNDI (i.e., by using the implementation provided by the Servlet/J2EE container), the file tyrex-1.0.jar should be removed.