Universal Messaging supports integration with JNDI through its own provider for JNDI. Universal Messaging's provider for JNDI enables clients using Universal Messaging Provider for JMS to locate references to JMS administered objects.

As with all Java APIs that interface with host systems, JNDI is independent of the system's underlying implementation; in the case of the Universal Messaging product, the JNDI provider stores object references within a Universal Messaging channel, and locates the references to the objects using a channel iterator. Note that if a realm is part of a cluster, then the channel representing the Universal Messaging Initial Context for JNDI will be created on all cluster realm servers. This ensures that any object references bound into the context are available on each realm server in the cluster.