Unable to access env-entry in java:comp namespace from a non JavaEE spawned thread in JBoss EAP 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We have defined this env-entry in our war's WEB-INF/web.xml
      <env-entry>
        <env-entry-name>config/info</env-entry-name>
        <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
        <env-entry-value>someValue</env-entry-value>
      </env-entry>

And we try to look it up as shown below, but we get NameNotFoundException when we try to look it up from a Thread that was created from our war.

InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
ic.lookup("java:comp/env/config/info");

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.x

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