Injection of ref to EJB fails

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:36:33 PST

Hi

I have 2 Stateless Session Beans (EJB3) packaged independently in their own module jar; deployment to glassfish works fine (verification also). One of the EJB needs to invoke the other.
First EJB name: SessionStoreBean
First EJB mapped-name (global jndi): ejb/SessionStore
declared as:
@Stateless
public class SessionStoreBean implements SessionStore {

In ejb-jar.xml:
        <session>
            <ejb-name>SessionStoreBean</ejb-name>
            <mapped-name>ejb/SessionStore</mapped-name>
            <ejb-class>org.limbs.broker.session.SessionStoreBean</ejb-class>

Second EJB name: AuthzManagerBean
Second EJB mapped-name (global jndi): ejb/AuthzManager
Declared as:
@Stateless
public class AuthzManagerBean implements AuthzManager {

In ejb-jar.xml:
        <session>
            <ejb-name>AuthzManagerBean</ejb-name>
            <mapped-name>ejb/AuthzManager</mapped-name>
            <ejb-class>org.limbs.broker.authz.AuthzManagerBean</ejb-class>

I can see that names are properly defined in GlassFish through the JNDI Browsing.

Because AuthzManager needs to invoke SessionStore, in the EJB Class, I define the following injection:
@Stateless
public class AuthzManagerBean implements AuthzManager {
    @EJB(name="SessionStoreBean")
    private SessionStore sessionStore;

but when I try to run it, I get an exception in GlassFish logs:

[#|2007-03-19T17:31:39.608+0100|INFO|sun-appserver-pe9.0|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb|_ThreadID=42;_ThreadName=p: thread-pool-1; w: 8;|EJB5070: Exception creating stateless session bean : [{0}]
com.sun.enterprise.InjectionException: Exception attempting to inject Unresolved Ejb-Ref ejb/SessionStore_at_jndi: org.limbs.broker.session.SessionStore_at_null@org.limbs.broker.session.SessionStore_at_Session@null into class org.limbs.broker.authz.AuthzManagerBean

However, I noticed that if I define the injection like:
@Stateless
public class AuthzManagerBean implements AuthzManager {
    @EJB(name="SessionStoreBean", mappedName="ejb/SessionStore")
    private SessionStore sessionStore;

then everything works fine. Is this the proper way to handle this kind of EJB reference injection?

Thanks for your help

Jean-Noel Colin
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