Creating an Initial Context to the Naming Service This example uses the JNDI/COS naming service provider to connect to the local tnameserv. String url = "iiop://localhost/"; Hashtable env = new Hashtable(); env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.cosnaming.CNCtxFactory"); env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, url); try { Context ctx = new InitialContext(env); } catch (NamingException e) { }