Problem injecting EJBs

[nstoddar]

I'm a bit confused on how to inject a simple EJB into a Seam-enabled POJO. I have the field marked with @In(), and configured the "" tag in components.xml, but nothing happens and Seam complains that a value is required by the injection tag and fails.

<component name="addressService" jndi-name="java:comp/env/ejb/AddressService" auto-create="true" />

...

@In()
private AddressService addressService;

Pretty straight-forward, right? I though it would work, but no. These EJBs are deployed separately, so I can't have them enabled through @Name, ergo the component tag that defines it in components.xml. Am I missing something?

[pmuir]

Use the standard @EJB

[nstoddar]

"petemuir" wrote:
Use the standard @EJB

I actually started by using the @EJB annotation, but it didn't work. What Seam code processes the annotation to inject the lookup value?

@EJB(name = "ejb/AddressService")
private AddressService addressService;

I have tried just about every combination of name, mappedName, etc with no positive result. Seam doesn't ever complain about a NameNotFoundException -- the first sign of a problem is the NullPointerException when the code executes. From the looks of it, I'm doing everything I should be doing to configure the ejb-ref on my glassfish.

Just for the heck of it, I just changed the name to something that clearly doesn't exist -- Seam didn't log any sort of exception to that effect. Maybe Seam isn't processing the annotation at all....

[pmuir]

Seam doesn't process @EJB, this is the job of the EJB3 implementation. As long as your bean is configured as an EJB3 bean it should work - but I've never used Glassfish, perhaps ask on the Glassfish forum?

[ips]

It's the job of the EJB container when the EJB annotation is used within EJBs. I think it would be really nice if Seam processed the EJB annotation when it was used within non-EJB POJOs. Otherwise, you're stuck using JNDI to lookup EJBs that are not Seam components.