The naming management is one of the functionality provided with the J2EE services. A J2EE service is a component functionality of the J2EE container.

The following table describes the naming management functionality and the reference locations.

Table 2-1 Naming management functionality and reference locations

Functionality	Reference location
Overview of naming management	2.2
Binding and looking up objects in the JNDI name space#	2.3
Looking up with the Portable Global JNDI names	2.4
Looking up with names beginning with HITACHI_EJB	2.5
Assigning an optional name to the Enterprise Beans or J2EE resources (user-specified name space functionality)	2.6
Searching the CORBA Naming Service by using the round-robin policy	2.7
Caching with the naming management functionality	2.8
Naming service error detection	2.9
Switching the CORBA Naming Services	2.10
Re-using the EJB home object references (functionality for re-connecting to the EJB home objects)	2.11

#: There are various types of lookup methods. For details on the lookup names and methods, see 2.3.1 Types of names used for lookup.