Novell Documentation: Classes for Java & JNDI Providers (NJCL)

1.7 Object Names

In JNDI, there are several types of object names. All object names are interpreted relative to the context that uses them, hence they are often referred to as relative object names.

An Atomic name is the indivisible component of an object name.
A Compound name is a sequence of one or more atomic names that identify an object.
A Composite name is an object name that spans multiple naming systems.

For example, if the current context was at the root of the NetWare namespace, you would specify the name of an object in the following manner:

   Servers/My_Server/SYS/My_Dir/myfile.txt

The relative object name in the context Servers/My_Server/SYS would be

   My_Dir/myfile.txt