lookup a session bean inside a servlet

[bertoz84]

Hi,

i have a simple servlet that lookup up for a session bean in doPost:

package webinterface.servlet;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.naming.Context;

import javax.naming.InitialContext;

import javax.naming.NamingException;

import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;

import javax.servlet.Servlet;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import bookshop.library.entitybean.*;

import bookshop.library.sessionbean.*;

public class somethingServlet extends HttpServlet implements Servlet {

           static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

           static Context context;

           static          OperazioniUtenti opUser;

           static Utenti user;

          public somethingServlet() {

                         super();

          }  

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

                    try

                    {

                                   context = new InitialContext();

                                   System.out.println(OperazioniUtentiRemote.class.toString()); // print successfully INFO  [STDOUT] interface bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniUtentiRemote

                                   opUser = (OperazioniUtenti) context.lookup("/BookShop/OperazioniUtenti/remote");

                    } catch (NamingException e) {

                                   e.printStackTrace();

                    }

I get the following error :

ERROR [STDERR] javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: BookShop not bound

I created a Web Project ( "Web" ) together with Struts in Eclipse Helios; then i added my BookShop.jar inside Web/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib

There's a problem with the JNDI lookup? Do i miss something?! I'm very new with those stuff!

thank you for helping me!!

[wdfink]

The standard JNDI binding starts with the name of the application jar/ear file.

E.g.  BookShop is inside the book.ear the lookup is "book/BookShop/OperazionoUtenti/remote".

You might see the naming if you use the jmx-console and call the jndi-view.

But why do you use a remote access if you are within the same server?

[bertoz84]

I knew that, infact i should use ( as i do ) BookShop/OperazioniUtenti/remote ( BookShop is a .jar inside my web project, i don't have yet a .war nor a .ear ). I don't get errors from the compiler but only at run-time.

...and i use the remote access because....i'm totally new with all jboss, java, ejb, jsp, servlet and i totally copying from tutorial and similar projects of my friends...so i'm not sure of what i do and if i do it the right way...

[andi-g]

The fastest way to create a web project with ejb in Eclipse is using a Enterprise Application Project:

First u create  Enterprise Application Project after that u create an EJB project where u put yours ejb components. In the end u create Dynamic Web Project with yours servlet.

[bertoz84]

I created my BookShop.jar as an EJB Project; now i'm working on the web part ( JSP + servlet ). In the end i will create an Enterprise Project that include both my ejb and web projects to create the final .ear.

But now i need to use my session beans inside servlets...

[andi-g]

Put your  BookShop.jar in JBOSS_HOME/server/.../deploy to deploy it into EJB container.

You can annoate your ejb bean using @RemoteBinding:

for example:

@Stateless

@RemoteBinding(jndiBinding = "/BookShop/OperazioniUtenti/remote")

public class TesBean implements ....

and after that you may use lookup inside your sevlet:

initialContext.lookup("/BookShop/OperazioniUtenti/remote");

[bertoz84]

I would prefer to have my .jar inside my web project ( as I do now ) and in the end create an .ear that I will deploy to the server ( my .jar alone is useless without the web interface ). Moreover this is a university project and I need to deliver a totally builded and working .ear.

As i do now I can find every bean and entity in my servlet during code writing; at run time is the same, the only thing is the lookup.

I don't get why everything is seen properly but the lookup returns a null pointer.

I think I'm missing something about the jndi: I got a similar problem while writing my BookShop and I solved it adding the jndi.properties file.

Regard your code:

@Stateless

@RemoteBinding(jndiBinding = "/BookShop/OperazioniUtenti/remote")

public class TesBean implements

I don't get where I have to insert the @RemoteBinding annotation: inside my servlet? or in my session beans ( OperazioniUtenti, etc... ) inside my ejb project BookShop?

I wonder if my BookShop.jar NEEDS to be deployed inside the server to let the lookup work inside my servlet...

[wdfink]

@Stateless and @RemoteBinding are annotations of the stateless session bean.

You should add

@RemoteBinding(jndiBinding = "/BookShop/OperazioniUtenti/remote")

to your bean implementation class.

[andi-g]

Is OperazioniUtenti an EJB component ?

If so,  then u have to deploy it as EJB project.

As fare as I know, when u put  it in WEB-INF/lib direcory the EJB Container doesn't deploy it.

Could  you show me the source code of OperazioniUtenti (just declaration and annotations)

@RemoteBinding - define your own JNDI name to component (e.g. EJB, MBean)

[bertoz84]

Here's my BookShop ( EJB project ) structure:

     - Book entity bean

     - Utenti entity bean ( in english: Users )

     - OperazioniUtenti stateless session bean ( in english: UsersOperations )

     - OperazioniLibri stateless session bean ( in english: BooksOperations )

     - Carrello stateful session bean ( in english: Cart )

     - AccessoUtente stateful session bean ( in english: UserAccess )

this is the code:

package bookshop.library.sessionbean;

import java.util.Iterator;

import java.util.List;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;

import javax.ejb.TransactionAttribute;

import javax.ejb.TransactionAttributeType;

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;

import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;

import bookshop.library.entitybean.*;

@Stateless

public class OperazioniUtenti implements OperazioniUtentiLocal{

          @PersistenceContext

          EntityManager em;

          public static final String RemoteJNDIName =  OperazioniUtenti.class.getSimpleName() + "/remote";

          public static final String LocalJNDIName =  OperazioniUtenti.class.getSimpleName() + "/local";

          public OperazioniUtenti() {

          }

bla bla bla....

i have no problem in looking up it in my BookShop project ( inside AccessoUtente bean or in a simple testing java client )

Now again my somethingServlet inside my Web project:

package webinterface.servlet;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.naming.Context;

import javax.naming.InitialContext;

import javax.naming.NamingException;

import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;

import javax.servlet.Servlet;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import bookshop.library.entitybean.*;

import bookshop.library.sessionbean.*;

public class somethingServlet extends HttpServlet implements Servlet {

           static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

           static Context context;

           static OperazioniUtenti opUser;

           static Utenti user;

          public somethingServlet() {

                         super();

          } 

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

                    try

                    {

                                   context = new InitialContext();

                                   System.out.println(OperazioniUtentiLocal.class.toString()); // print successfully INFO  [STDOUT] interface bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniUtentiLocal

                                   opUser = (OperazioniUtenti) context.lookup("/BookShop/OperazioniUtenti/local");

                    } catch (NamingException e) {

                                   e.printStackTrace();

                    }

bla bla bla...

( ....I switched to Local from Remote....).

Lookup returns a null pointer because it can't find BookShop.

I read a lot about this problem but the best answer i found says to put my BookShop.jar inside MYWEBPROJECTPATH/WebContent/WEB_INF/lib and be sure to have it in the java build path of the web project ( that's what i did ). Here the links:

http://devpinoy.org/blogs/lamia/archive/2008/01/03/deploying-your-jar-with-your-war-in-eclipse.aspx

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aIWml4XYWCEJ:java.sun.com/j2ee/verified/packaging.html+add+jar+to+war&cd=6&hl=it&ct=clnk&gl=it&lr=lang_en|lang_it&source=www.google.it

[andi-g]

Here is a part of a text from second link:

"Mechanism 1: The WEB-INF/lib Directory

If you place a library JAR file (for example, struts.jar) into the WEB-INF/lib directory of the WAR file, a web application or web module can use the Struts APIs. bla bla bla ... This mechanism cannot be used by EJB modules."

I'm not an expert, but as far as I know, there are at least two kinds of containers in JBoss, WebContainer and EJBContainer. If you place  BookShop.jar in WEB-INF/lib dir, then ejbDeployer doesn't create EJB components and doen't put theirs names in JNDI.

Try to do so, and put BookShop.jar in deploy dir. Of course, if you want to have everything in one archive, the ear will be the best solution.

[bertoz84]

Mechanism 1....if i'm not a dumb my .JAR is used by a web module, not an ejb module.

I thought that deploying my web project together with my .jar could cause the .jar to be deployed too, or at least set the jndi to point to my ejbs inside my .jar. Maybe that's not true.

I'll try your solutions guys...

[bertoz84]

one step ahead!

I created the .ear ( EARShop ) that "uses" both the .jar ( BookShop ) and the .war ( WebShop ).

I removed the .jar from the WEB-INF/lib inside the .war ( because during .ear deploy there was a duplicate name error ); to include my beans in my web project i simply added under its properties, to the JavaBuildPath/Projects, my BookShop project.

now while deploying the .ear i can read this:

12:37:25,110 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.proxy.impl.jndiregistrar.JndiSessionRegistrarBase] Binding the following Entries in Global JNDI:

  EARShop/AccessoUtente/local - EJB3.x Default Local Business Interface

          EARShop/AccessoUtente/local-bookshop.library.sessionbean.AccessoUtenteLocal - EJB3.x Local Business Interface

12:37:25,113 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.session.SessionSpecContainer] Starting jboss.j2ee:ear=EARShop.ear,jar=BookShop.jar,name=Carrello,service=EJB3

12:37:25,114 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: bookshop.library.sessionbean.Carrello ejbName: Carrello

12:37:25,118 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.proxy.impl.jndiregistrar.JndiSessionRegistrarBase] Binding the following Entries in Global JNDI:

  EARShop/Carrello/local - EJB3.x Default Local Business Interface

          EARShop/Carrello/local-bookshop.library.sessionbean.CarrelloLocal - EJB3.x Local Business Interface

12:37:25,120 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.session.SessionSpecContainer] Starting jboss.j2ee:ear=EARShop.ear,jar=BookShop.jar,name=OperazioniLibri,service=EJB3

12:37:25,121 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniLibri ejbName: OperazioniLibri

12:37:25,125 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.proxy.impl.jndiregistrar.JndiSessionRegistrarBase] Binding the following Entries in Global JNDI:

          EARShop/OperazioniLibri/local - EJB3.x Default Local Business Interface

          EARShop/OperazioniLibri/local-bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniLibriLocal - EJB3.x Local Business Interface

12:37:25,125 WARN  [org.jboss.ejb3.TimerServiceContainer] EJBTHREE-2193: using deprecated TimerServiceFactory for restoring timers

12:37:25,127 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.session.SessionSpecContainer] Starting jboss.j2ee:ear=EARShop.ear,jar=BookShop.jar,name=BookTestBean,service=EJB3

12:37:25,128 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: bookshop.test.BookTestBean ejbName: BookTestBean

12:37:25,133 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.proxy.impl.jndiregistrar.JndiSessionRegistrarBase] Binding the following Entries in Global JNDI:

          EARShop/BookTestBean/remote - EJB3.x Default Remote Business Interface

          EARShop/BookTestBean/remote-bookshop.test.BookTestBeanRemote - EJB3.x Remote Business Interface

          EARShop/BookTestBean/local - EJB3.x Default Local Business Interface

          EARShop/BookTestBean/local-bookshop.test.BookTestBeanLocal - EJB3.x Local Business Interface

12:37:25,134 WARN  [org.jboss.ejb3.TimerServiceContainer] EJBTHREE-2193: using deprecated TimerServiceFactory for restoring timers

12:37:25,135 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.session.SessionSpecContainer] Starting jboss.j2ee:ear=EARShop.ear,jar=BookShop.jar,name=OperazioniUtenti,service=EJB3

12:37:25,136 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniUtenti ejbName: OperazioniUtenti

12:37:25,138 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb3.proxy.impl.jndiregistrar.JndiSessionRegistrarBase] Binding the following Entries in Global JNDI:

          EARShop/OperazioniUtenti/local - EJB3.x Default Local Business Interface

          EARShop/OperazioniUtenti/local-bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniUtentiLocal - EJB3.x Local Business Interface

12:37:25,139 WARN  [org.jboss.ejb3.TimerServiceContainer] EJBTHREE-2193: using deprecated TimerServiceFactory for restoring timers

12:37:25,147 INFO  [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/WebShop

12:37:47,745 INFO  [STDOUT] interface bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniUtentiLocal

that means i should lookup my ejbs with this name:

          EARShop/OperazioniUtenti/local

( EAR_NAME/bean/local, not JAR_NAME/bean/local );

i tried it and i found out that it doesn't work; instead it works if i use:

          EARShop/OperazioniUtenti/local-bookshop.library.sessionbean.OperazioniUtentiLocal

Why are there 2 jndi binding, non-default and default, and here i need to use the default while testing my .jar i use the non-default?

Thank you a lot and sorry for bothering you so much!!!

[andi-g]

No problem

Try to use:

@Stateless

@LocalBinding(jndiBinding = "myProject/OperazioniUtenti/local")

public class OperazioniUtentiBean implements OperazioniUtenti

then you'll be able to write in your servlet:

lookup("myProject/OperazioniUtenti/local")

For remote:

@Remote

@Stateless

@RemoteBinding(jndiBinding = "myProject/OperazioniUtenti/remote")

public class OperazioniUtentiBean implements OperazioniUtenti

Remember to use @Remote while using @RemoteBinding.

Good idea (in my opinion) is to create two separated jars:

     1.  BookShop.jar or BookShopImpl.jar to keep Beans' implementations (EJB)

     2.  BookShopApi.jar to keep only interfaces

After that you can safely put BookShopApi to WEB-INF/lib dir or include to other client's application.