ClassCastException on Stateless Remote Bean

[holmes.j]

Howdy,
Just started with the new EJB 3 stuff, so I'm guessing I've done something wrong. I just can't see what it is.

I'm getting ClassCastExceptions when trying to get the a Remote Session Bean in a JNDI lookup. It's failing on the cast to the GeoFeatureManager.

try {
 String geoFeatureManagerName = "motionbased/GeoFeatureManagerBean/remote";

 InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
 Object object = ctx.lookup(geoFeatureManagerName);
 GeoFeatureManager geoFeatureManager = (GeoFeatureManagerBean) object;

 this.geoFeature = geoFeatureManager.findGeoFeature(getGeoFeaturePk());
 } catch (NamingException e1) {
 e1.printStackTrace();
 throw new SQLException(e1.getMessage());
 }

The Remote Interface

@Remote
public interface GeoFeatureManager extends Serializable {
...
}

The Implementation of it ...

@Stateless(name = "GeoFeatureManagerBean")
@Remote( { GeoFeatureManager.class })
@RemoteBinding(jndiBinding = "motionbased/GeoFeatureManagerBean/remote")
public class GeoFeatureManagerBean implements GeoFeatureManager {
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 6211376611083502502L;

I read this http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CommonHurdlesAndDifficultiesYouMayEncounterDuringEJB3Development that says to make sure you don't have the class in more than one jar. I've checked, and it only appears in one of my jars.

When I step through the code, it returns a $Proxy, which contains h, a StatelessRemoteProxy. Within the proxy it sees the appropriate jar. And in the EJBMetaData, it has the appropriate interface, GeoFeatureManager.

So, I don't really see what I'm doing wrong. Hopefully somebody else can point out my mistake.

Thanks!

[holmes.j]

This one was stupid. I was originally casting back to the bean. That won't work, so I changed it to the interface. Except I only changed the declared local variable, I missed the cast.

 GeoFeatureManager geoFeatureManager = (GeoFeatureManagerBean) object;

should have been

GeoFeatureManager geoFeatureManager = (GeoFeatureManager) object;