I'm rather new to EJB programming, so please bear with me.  I've
installed JBoss 3.2.1 along with Tomcat 4.1, and have been going
through some tutorials to create a stateless session bean.  However,
I've been receiving some error messages, and wanted to make sure I
have everything configured properly.

All of the tutorials I've seen have something similar to the
following:

       try
       {
           InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
           Object objRef = ctx.lookup("test/MyTestSessionBean");
           testBean =
(MyTestSessionHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objRef,
MyTestSessionHome.class);
       }
       catch (Exception e)
       {
           e.printStackTrace();
           System.out.println("EXCEPTION:  " + e.getMessage());
       }

However, when I run my servlet that is calling a method on the session
bean, I get a null pointer exception.

But, if I change it to the following:

       Properties p = new Properties();
       p.setProperty("java.naming.factory.initial","org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
       p.setProperty("java.naming.provider.url","jnp://localhost:1099");
       p.setProperty("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs","org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
       p.setProperty("jnp.socketFactory","org.jnp.interfaces.TimedSocketFactory");

       try
       {
           InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(p);
        ......

everything works fine.  I'm guessing that somehow my naming schemas
are not setup in Tomcat correctly, but I don't know how to correct it.
Can anyone give me any guidance on this?  Thanks very much!

Steve Nakhla