JNDI URL from tomcat 5 definition

J2EE Resources
The J2EE standard provides a standard set of elements in the /WEB-INF/web.xml file to reference resources.

Tomcat 5.5
entries in per-web-application InitialContext are configured in the elements that can be specified in either $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml or, preferably, the per-web-application context XML file (either META-INF/context.xml).  example

Tomcat 5.5
separate namespace of global resources for the entire server. These are configured in the element of $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml.

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Hibernate says this, or using Hibernate with Tomcat [2] and JNDI , 3.X

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