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Injected Dependencies in Web Application are null

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:21:49 PDT

Hi,

I must be missing something obvious. I'm trying to implement my first JSF web application using EJBs, and I followed the patterns in the "dukesbank" example. I can spot nothing that I'm doing different from what is happening in the "dukesbank" webapp, but the first time an EJB is referenced from a backing bean I get a null pointer exception.

The most simple scenario that fails is the following. I would be very grateful for any hint.

I have a JSF page that gets a string from a backing bean's property:

<h:outputText value="#{customerBean.demoString2}"/>

These are the relevant code sections:

The backing bean:

public class CustomerBean {
        @EJB
        private CustomerSessionRemote customerSession;
        
        public CustomerBean() {
        }

        public String getDemoString2() {
                return customerSession.fetchTest();
        }
}

The remote interface of the session bean:

@Remote
public interface CustomerSessionRemote {
    public String fetchTest();
}

The implementation of the session bean:

@Stateless
@TransactionManagement(value=TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
public class CustomerSession implements CustomerSessionLocal, CustomerSessionRemote {
    
    @javax.persistence.PersistenceContext(unitName="backoffice")
    private EntityManager em;
    
    public CustomerSession(){
    }
    
    public String fetchTest() {
            return "FETCH TEST";
    }
}

This is the exception when I access the JSF page for the first time:

[#|2007-05-16T19:42:33.507+0200|WARNING|sun-appserver9.1|javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.lifecycle|_ThreadID=17;_ThreadName=httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-1;_RequestID=5817e8e1-7668-4fd3-8d7f-090652015169;|executePhase(RENDER_RESPONSE 6,com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl_at_f1e6e4) threw exception

javax.faces.FacesException: javax.el.ELException: java.lang.NullPointerException

        at javax.faces.component.UIOutput.getValue(UIOutput.java:176)

        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicInputRenderer.getValue(HtmlBasicInputRenderer.java:189)

        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.getCurrentValue(HtmlBasicRenderer.java:320)

        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.encodeEnd(HtmlBasicRenderer.java:200)

        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:833)

        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.encodeRecursive(HtmlBasicRenderer.java:279)

        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.GridRenderer.encodeChildren(GridRenderer.java:242)

        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:809)

        at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:886)

        at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:137)

        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:809)

        at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:886)

        at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892)

        at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.doRenderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:244)

        at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:175)

        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106)

        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251)

        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144)

        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:398)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:277)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:258)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:189)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:611)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:81)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:193)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:611)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:558)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1067)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:137)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:611)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:558)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1067)

        at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:255)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(DefaultProcessorTask.java:618)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.doProcess(DefaultProcessorTask.java:549)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.process(DefaultProcessorTask.java:790)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.executeProcessorTask(DefaultReadTask.java:326)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:248)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:199)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.portunif.PortUnificationPipeline$PUTask.doTask(PortUnificationPipeline.java:346)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:252)

        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ssl.SSLWorkerThread.run(SSLWorkerThread.java:93)

Caused by: javax.el.ELException: java.lang.NullPointerException

        at javax.el.BeanELResolver.getValue(BeanELResolver.java:266)

        at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:143)

        at com.sun.faces.el.FacesCompositeELResolver.getValue(FacesCompositeELResolver.java:64)

        at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:125)

        at com.sun.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:193)

        at javax.faces.component.UIOutput.getValue(UIOutput.java:173)

        ... 45 more

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

        at com.flabbergasting.web.beans.CustomerBean.getDemoString2(CustomerBean.java:23)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)

        at javax.el.BeanELResolver.getValue(BeanELResolver.java:261)

Thanks
Stephan
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