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Unable to retrieve EntityManagerFactory for unitName null for simple EJB

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Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 23:35:36 PDT

I'm trying to write the very simple Stateless bean with one method for just getting entity by id (through EntityManager.find()) in local mySql database and accessing it from a servlet. In server.log I get:

ru.kg.jpa.client.VehicleServlet threw exception
javax.ejb.EJBException
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.processSystemException(BaseContainer.java:5070)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.completeNewTx(BaseContainer.java:4968)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvokeTx(BaseContainer.java:4756)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1955)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1906)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.java:198)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.java:84)
        at $Proxy162.getVehicle(Unknown Source)
        at ru.kg.jpa.client.VehicleServlet.doGet(VehicleServlet.java:24)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:734)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1523)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:279)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:188)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:641)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:97)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:85)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:185)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:332)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:233)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:165)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:791)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:693)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:954)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:170)
        at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:135)
        at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:102)
        at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:88)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:76)
        at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:53)
        at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:57)
        at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:69)
        at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:330)
        at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:309)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to retrieve EntityManagerFactory for unitName null
        at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.EntityManagerWrapper.init(EntityManagerWrapper.java:121)
        at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.EntityManagerWrapper._getDelegate(EntityManagerWrapper.java:162)
        at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.EntityManagerWrapper.find(EntityManagerWrapper.java:309)
        at ru.kg.jpa.ejb.VehicleServiceBean.getVehicle(VehicleServiceBean.java:25)
        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:597)
        at org.glassfish.ejb.security.application.EJBSecurityManager.runMethod(EJBSecurityManager.java:1052)
        at org.glassfish.ejb.security.application.EJBSecurityManager.invoke(EJBSecurityManager.java:1124)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.invokeBeanMethod(BaseContainer.java:5243)
        at com.sun.ejb.EjbInvocation.invokeBeanMethod(EjbInvocation.java:615)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.AroundInvokeChainImpl.invokeNext(InterceptorManager.java:797)
        at com.sun.ejb.EjbInvocation.proceed(EjbInvocation.java:567)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.SystemInterceptorProxy.doAround(SystemInterceptorProxy.java:157)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.SystemInterceptorProxy.aroundInvoke(SystemInterceptorProxy.java:139)
        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:597)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.AroundInvokeInterceptor.intercept(InterceptorManager.java:858)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.AroundInvokeChainImpl.invokeNext(InterceptorManager.java:797)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.InterceptorManager.intercept(InterceptorManager.java:367)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.__intercept(BaseContainer.java:5215)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.intercept(BaseContainer.java:5203)
        at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.java:190)
        ... 29 more
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Tried on Glassvish v3.0.1 and 3.1 ("latest_glassfish" downloaded from "Nightly builds" link) with same results.

Entity class looks like:

@Entity
public class Vehicle
{
        public int getVin() {
                return vin;
        }

        public void setVin(int vin) {
                this.vin = vin;
        }

        @Id
        int vin;
}

local interface and it's stateless implementation are:
@Local
public interface VehicleService
{
        Vehicle getVehicle(Integer vin);
}

@Stateless
public class VehicleServiceBean implements VehicleService
{
        public Vehicle getVehicle(Integer vin) {
                logger.info("vin: " + vin);
                if (em == null)
                        logger.info("em is null");

                logger.info("em: " + em);
                
                return em.find(Vehicle.class, vin);
        }

        private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("ru.kg.jpa");

        @PersistenceContext
        EntityManager em;
}

persistence.xml (also tried with <provider>oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider</provider>) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" version="2.0">
        <persistence-unit name="jpaUnit">
                <properties>
                        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
                        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/vehicle_db"/>
                        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="root"/>
                        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="root"/>
                </properties>
        </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

servlet using the service (injected by @EJB):
@WebServlet(urlPatterns = "/vehicle")
public class VehicleServlet extends HttpServlet
{
        @Override
        protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
                        Vehicle vehicle = service.getVehicle(1);

                        System.out.println("ok! " + vehicle.getVin());
                        request.getRequestDispatcher("index.jsp").forward(request, response);
        }

        @EJB
        private VehicleService service;
}

As I see in the log and in debug, entity manager is injected and therefore is not null, but em.find() method fails.

So, this might be some GF bug or may be some configuring in persistence.xml is wrong.
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