Almost identical session beans, one works one fails

[melladh]

The failing one is looked up like this, and I get a "not bound" exception when activating the servlet it's called from.

Context context = new InitialContext();
 Object listRef = context.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/ListApplicants");

The working one is looked up the same way, except that it's called Applicant instead of ListApplicants. All the configurations look the same.

Home interface

package ejb;

/**
 * Home interface for ListApplicants.
 */
public interface ListApplicantsHome
 extends javax.ejb.EJBHome
{
 public static final String COMP_NAME="java:comp/env/ejb/ListApplicants";
 public static final String JNDI_NAME="ejb/ListApplicants";

 public ejb.ListApplicants create(java.lang.String param)
 throws javax.ejb.CreateException,java.rmi.RemoteException;

}

jboss.xml

<session>
 <ejb-name>ListApplicants</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>ejb/ListApplicants</jndi-name>
 <local-jndi-name>ListApplicantsLocal</local-jndi-name>
 </session>

ejb-jar.xml

<session >
 <description><![CDATA[Description for ListApplicants]]></description>
 <display-name>Name for ListApplicants</display-name>

 <ejb-name>ListApplicants</ejb-name>

 <home>ejb.ListApplicantsHome</home>
 <remote>ejb.ListApplicants</remote>
 <ejb-class>ejb.ListApplicantsBean</ejb-class>

 <session-type>Stateful</session-type>
 <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>

 </session>

This looks exactly the same for my ApplicantBean, with the names changed accordingly, and that one works! This one doesn't. Anyone have a clue about what's wrong?

[melladh]

if I look up the jndi-name ejb/ListApplicants it works, but I'm wondering why one works with the COMP name and the other one doesn't

[jaikiran]

Post the entire contents of the ejb-jar.xml, jboss.xml and jboss-web.xml(if you have that). I guess for Applicant bean there is a ejb-ref that has been mentioned in one of those files because of which the lookup is successful using a COMP_NAME in case of Applicant.

[melladh]

Thank you, I've been fiddling so much with the entity beans that I forgot all about jboss-web.xml

It basically only contains

<ejb-ref>
 <ejb-ref-name>ejb/Application</ejb-ref-name>
 <jndi-name>ejb/Application</jndi-name>
 </ejb-ref>

right now, so I'll have to add the other one and try it out.