Have you checked version in web.xml? Is it < 2.5?
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> GFv2r2, JDK 5
>
> We have a generic, everyday Stateless Session Bean.
>
> It had been, up to now, working just peachy.
>
> Today, it's decided to revolt.
>
> Within this session bean we have:
>
> [code]
> @EJB(name = "ejb/MySessionBean", beanName = "MySessionBean")
> private MySessionLocal kb;
> [/code]
>
> Later, I have:
>
> [code]
> kb.update(o);
> [/code]
>
> This fails with a Null Pointer Exception.
>
> kb is null. I even check, print it out, debug it. It's null. Why is it null?
>
> So, on a lark I changed the declaration up above.
>
> from
>
> [code]
> @EJB(name = "ejb/MySessionBean", beanName = "MySessionBean")
> private MySessionLocal kb;
> [/code]
>
> to
>
> [code]
> @EJB(name = "ejb/MySessionBeanX", beanName = "MySessionBean")
> private MySessionLocal kb;
> [/code]
>
> And now, it works.
>
> Why does it work now? Why didn't it work before? I can change the X to anything (1, Q, whatever), and it works. But if I leave it at "ejb/MySessionBean", it doesn't work. It fails. I get null.
>
> And I get no error, no complaint. Nothing about the injection failing. The session bean is called directly from a Web WAR client bundled in the same ear, using the local interface.
>
> Even more annoying, is I have a @AroundInvoke object as an interceptor. It runs, it has the EXACT SAME declaration, and IT works, but not here.
>
> This also fails when I remove the @AroundInvoke (I thought maybe it had something to do with it -- no, I don't know why either, but it was a recent change so I backed it out just to see).
>
> Any clues anyone?
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