Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is a Java application programming interface (API) that provides naming and directory functionality for Java software clients to discover and look up data and objects via a name. It helps decouple object creation from the object look-up. When you have registered a datasource with JNDI, others can discover it through a JNDI look-up and use it.
You can expose an RDBMS datasource as a JNDI datasource at the point of adding a datasource. Click Expose as a JNDI Data Source to display the JNDI fields as shown below.
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