Tomcat provides a JNDI InitialContext implementation instance for each web application running under it, in a manner that is compatible with those provided by a Java Enterprise Edition application server. The Java EE standard provides a standard set of elements in the /WEB-INF/web.xml file to reference/define resources.
- Java Naming and Directory Interface (included in JDK 1.4 onwards)
- Java EE Platform Specification
