Invalid invocation of local interface (null container)
I am a newbie to EJB3. I have some experience with EJB2, but having hardtime with EJB3. I am trying to write one very simple stateless session bean. The files are,
1. ejb.hello.HelloBean.java
2. ejb.hello.HelloLocal.java
3. WEB-INF/jndi.properties
The files contents are,
ejb.hello.HelloBean.java
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/**
*
*/
package ejb.hello;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
@Stateless
public class HelloBean implements HelloRemote, HelloLocal {
private String greeting = "Hello";
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see ejb.hello.Hello#hello()
*/
public String hello() {
return "Hello";
}
/**
* @return the greeting
*/
public String getGreeting() {
return greeting;
}
/**
* @param greeting the greeting to set
*/
public void setGreeting(String greeting) {
this.greeting = greeting;
}
}
ejb.hello.HelloLocal.java
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/**
*
*/
package ejb.hello;
import javax.ejb.Local;
@Local
public interface HelloLocal {
public String hello();
}
WEB-INF/jndi.properties
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java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces
java.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099
My client is HelloTest.java
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package ejb.web;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import ejb.hello.HelloLocal;
import ejb.hello.HelloRemote;
public class HelloTest {
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
HelloLocal hellol = (HelloLocal) ctx.lookup("HelloBean/local");
if (hellol == null) {
System.out.println("Hello is null");
}
System.out.println("Output = " + hellol.hello());
}
catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Error in main");
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I get errors
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Error in main
javax.ejb.EJBException: Invalid invocation of local interface (null container)
at org.jboss.ejb3.stateless.StatelessLocalProxy.invoke(StatelessLocalProxy.java:77)
at $Proxy0.hello(Unknown Source)
at ejb.web.HelloTest.main(HelloTest.java:24)
When I start jboss server, it did display following lines in logs so I assume, the bean got deployed allright..
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18:01:02,203 INFO [JmxKernelAbstraction] installing MBean: jboss.j2ee:jar=EHello.jar,name=HelloBean,service=EJB3 with dependencies:
18:01:02,484 INFO [EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: ejb.hello.HelloBean ejbName: HelloBean
18:01:02,578 INFO [EJB3Deployer] Deployed: file:/C:/jboss-4.2.0.GA/server/default/deploy/EHello.jar
I assume, ejb-jar.xml, jboss.xml files are not needed with EJB3, Am I right? What am I doing wrong?
Please help....
Thanks.
