public static  void bind(Context ctx,
    String name,
    Object val) throws NamingException 
{
		try {
			log.trace("binding: " + name);
			ctx.rebind(name, val);
		}
		catch (Exception e) {
			Name n = ctx.getNameParser("").parse(name);
			while ( n.size()  > 1 ) {
				String ctxName = n.get(0);
				Context subctx=null;
				try {
					log.trace("lookup: " + ctxName);
					subctx = (Context) ctx.lookup(ctxName);
				}
				catch (NameNotFoundException nfe) {}
				if (subctx!=null) {
					log.debug("Found subcontext: " + ctxName);
					ctx = subctx;
				}
				else {
					log.info("Creating subcontext: " + ctxName);
					ctx = ctx.createSubcontext(ctxName);
				}
				n = n.getSuffix(1);
			}
			log.trace("binding: " + n);
			ctx.rebind(n, val);
		}
		log.debug("Bound name: " + name);
}

Bind val to name in ctx, and make sure that all intermediate contexts exist.

 public static InitialContext getInitialContext(Properties props) throws NamingException 
{
	       
		Hashtable hash = getJndiProperties(props);
		log.info("JNDI InitialContext properties:" + hash);
		try {
			return hash.size()==0 ?
					new InitialContext() :
					new InitialContext(hash);
		}
		catch (NamingException e) {
			log.error("Could not obtain initial context", e);
			throw e;
		}
}

 public static Properties getJndiProperties(Properties properties) 
{
		HashSet specialProps = new HashSet();
		specialProps.add(Environment.JNDI_CLASS);
		specialProps.add(Environment.JNDI_URL);
		Iterator iter = properties.keySet().iterator();
		Properties result = new Properties();
		while ( iter.hasNext() ) {
			String prop = (String) iter.next();
			if ( prop.indexOf(Environment.JNDI_PREFIX)  > -1 && !specialProps.contains(prop) ) {
				result.setProperty(
						prop.substring( Environment.JNDI_PREFIX.length()+1 ),
						properties.getProperty(prop)
					);
			}
		}
		String jndiClass = properties.getProperty(Environment.JNDI_CLASS);
		String jndiURL = properties.getProperty(Environment.JNDI_URL);
		// we want to be able to just use the defaults,
		// if JNDI environment properties are not supplied
		// so don't put null in anywhere
		if (jndiClass != null) result.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, jndiClass);
		if (jndiURL != null) result.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, jndiURL);
		return result;
}

Transform JNDI properties passed in the form hibernate.jndi.* to the format accepted by InitialContext by triming the leading "hibernate.jndi".