The following table describes the naming management functionality. Select the functionality according to the purpose of the system. For details about the functionality, see the reference location.

Table 1-2 Correspondence between the naming management functionality and the purpose of a system

Functionality	Purpose of a system					Compliance with Java EE standards		Reference location
	Reliability	Performance	Operation and maintenance	Expansion	Others	Standard	Expanded
Binding and looking up objects in the JNDI name space	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	2.3
Looking up with the Portable Global JNDI names	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	2.4
Looking up with names beginning with HITACHI_EJB	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	2.5
Assigning an optional name to the Enterprise Beans or J2EE resources (user-specified name space functionality)	N	N	N	Y	N	N	Y	2.6
Searching the CORBA Naming Service by using the round-robin policy	N	N	N	Y	N	N	Y	2.7
Caching with the naming management functionality	N	Y	N	N	N	N	Y	2.8
Detecting errors in a naming service	Y	N	N	N	N	N	Y	2.9
Switching the CORBA Naming Service	N	N	N	Y	N	N	Y	2.10
Re-using the EJB home object references (functionality for re-connecting to the EJB home objects)	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	2.11

Legend:

Y: Supported

N: Not supported

Note: The functionality for which Y is specified in both Standard and Expanded columns of the Compliance with Java EE standards column indicates that the Application Server-specific functionality has been expanded to the Java EE standard functionality. The functionality for which Y is specified only in the Expanded column indicates the Application Server-specific functionality.