Where is class weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory?

Question

when trying to execute my jar file I get an exception:

javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate class: weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory 
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Answer 1

For WLS 12.2, where WL_HOME is The BEA home directory of your WebLogic installation

(as defualt WL_HOME is Middleware\Oracle_Home\wlserver)

%WL_HOME%\server\lib\wlclient.jar
%WL_HOME%\server\lib\wls-api.jar 
%WL_HOME%\server\lib\wls-api-part.jar 
%WL_HOME%\server\lib\wlthint3client.jar 

all these libs contains the: jar: weblogic\jndi\WLInitialContextFactory.class

see WLS doc.: https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/fusion-middleware/weblogic-server/12.2.1.4/wlprg/overview.html#GUID-FC14CC53-DE49-456F-B54C-D73CC6DBF818

Answer 2

in version 12c it is located in weblogic-classes.jar in your lib directory:

C:\wls1213\wlserver\server\lib

Answer 3

it looks you are doing a JNDI lookup outside of WLS.

You need to use wlfulclient.jar or if your machine has a WLS installation then add to your classpath project: WL_HOME/server/lib/weblogic.jar

Answer 4

I faced the same issue and it's fixed now :)

The fix is, to go to WebLogic server and navigate to /Oracle/Middleware/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/ and execute the below command.

Command: java -jar wljarbuilder.jar -profile wlfullclient5

The above command creates a jar file with all the jar's inside WebLogic server /lib folder and place it in your client java code build path Eclipse and craetes runnable JAR file and place this wlfullclient5.jar file in server/lib folder as well.

Hope this helps! Kindly let me know if you have any issues.