Tomcat and JNDI

Let’s consider the standard baseline Java EE application: it’s a web application, with some kind of framework, using JDBC or something that wraps it. In canonical Java EE form, it would be a JSF front end and request routing mechanism, with JPA as the data framework, with resources acquired via JNDI. (Note: “canonical Java EE form” doesn’t imply in any way that this is what people actually do, because normally people avoid...