Webspehere 6.1 and JNDI for something other than a Datasource

I was开发者_JAVA技巧 wondering: how does one go about configuring WAS if they want to store some confidential information that is not datasource, JMS or Mail related? I'm looking more for an adhoc JNDI resource (a few Strings) that can be queried at runtime to get both a username and password for a vendor system I need to connect to.

Not being uber familiar with WAS, I'm sort of lost. In Tomcat it was a breeze. In WAS, I think I'm missing a few concepts, I'm sure it's possible though.

WAS JNDI is open to extension using your own URL provider class. The examplehere uses the capability to point to property files, but presumably you could instead create a provider that obtained data from a database (or whatever repository you are required to use) instead of a property file.

You can define your own JNDI entries.

Under Environment -> Naming -> Name Space Bindings you can create String binding type, and assign a key and value which can be looked up by the applications.

Is this what you are after?

Manglu