ClassCastException upon EAR Redeploy!

[ldandersen]

Hi,
I hate to bring up another ClassCastException problem, but I'm really stumped. I have a servlet (actually a Struts action) that needs to look up EJBs. My code works great until I redeploy my EAR file (which contains an EJB Jar and a WAR file). Once JBoss redeploys it, any subsequent requests to the servlet yield the following exception:

java.lang.ClassCastException
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.javax.rmi.PortableR
emoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:293)
at javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(Portabl
eRemoteObject.java:134)

I am using JBoss 3.0/Jetty on Windows. Here is the code in question:

public UserManager getUserManager () {
try {
if (manager == null) {
initUserManager();
}

return manager;
}
catch (RemoteException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (CreateException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (NamingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

return null;
}

public void initUserManager () throws NamingException, RemoteException, CreateException {
if (managerHome == null) {
managerHome = (UserManagerHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(lookup("loanapps/UserManager"), UserManagerHome.class);
manager = managerHome.create();
}
}

public Object lookup (String jndiName) throws NamingException, MissingResourceException {
if (jndiContext == null) {
ResourceBundle resource = ResourceBundle.getBundle("com.megastar.loanapps.jndi");
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, resource.getString(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY));
properties.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, resource.getString(Context.PROVIDER_URL));
properties.setProperty(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, resource.getString(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES));
jndiContext = new InitialContext(properties);
}

return (jndiContext.lookup(jndiName));
}

Also, it should be mentioned that I have tried this with and without including my EJB classes in my WAR (in addition to my EJB jar).

Does anyone have any ideas what I could do to alleviate this problem? Perhaps a different way to package my app? Any help would be *greatly* appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Buzz Andersen

[ldandersen]

For posterity, I thought I would mention that the problem had to do with the fact that I didn't have an ejb-ref defined in my web.xml file. Once I put that in, things started working quite nicely!

Buzz