JSF 1.2 EJB3 injection

[jmiguel77]

Hi

I am tryingo to test the EJB3 session bean injection in a JSF managed Bean

I hav modified my web.xml to include this

<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

My ejb jar is correct and deployed; in the managed bean i have this:

@Resource
UserServiceLocal userService;

but when i try to call any method in the userService, it gives me a null pointer exception

What can i be missing ??

[wolfc]

First you should be using the @EJB annotation, not the @Resource.

Second this thread http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=107353 shows you how to inject session beans into a JSF bean.

[waynebaylor]

Have you tried doing a JNDI lookup instead of injection?

And what version of JBoss are you using? Annotation injection in servlets/JSF isn't implemented in 4.0.5 & 4.2.0.

[jmiguel77]

I have been working wiht JNDI lookups for the web layer of my applications for some time, but i wanted to give a try to the JBoss 4.2 precisely because it was stated that this version was fully Java EE compliant, but aparentlly it is not

Thanks to wolf for the link but i found it not good enoguh. The actual version of glassfish supports @EJB injection of the session beans in the web layer without all the web.xml and jboss-web.xml complication

Guess i'll have to wait for the JBoss 5 version