can't instantiate component

[gholmer]

We're working on our first Seam app, and are having trouble instantiating an EJB as a Seam component.  Our environment is Seam 2.1.1 and GlassFish 2.1, building with NetBeans and not using seam-gen.

The first link in the app is an s:link whose action is #{categoryAction.topCategoryClicked}. So far, so good. CategoryAction is an EJB, and we've declared it in web.xml with an ejb-local-ref.  But CategoryAction wants to inject CategoryBean.  I can put @EJB on CategoryBeanLocal and get a reference to it (the resulting page is displayed normally with all the data), but when I replace that with @In, I get "No object bound to name java:comp/env/phoenix/CategoryBean/local".  CategoryBean's ejb-ref is set up the same way as that of CategoryAction.

What are we missing here?

[swd847]

in your main components.xml there should be a line similar to:

<core:init jndi-pattern="myJNDIPattern" />

What is the jndi-pattern set to and where is the EJB actually bound to in JNDI?

[gholmer]

The solution we found was to add this in ejb-jar.xml:

<enterprise-beans>
  <session>
    <ejb-name>CategoryAction</ejb-name>
    <ejb-class>com.weycogroup.phoenix.sf.action.CategoryAction</ejb-class>
    <ejb-local-ref>
      <ejb-ref-name>phoenix/CategoryBean/local</ejb-ref-name>
      <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
      <local>com.weycogroup.phoenix.business.local.CategoryBeanLocal</local>
      <ejb-link>CategoryBean</ejb-link>
    </ejb-local-ref>
  </session>
</enterprise-beans>

I found this solution here in the forums:

http://www.seamframework.org/2444.lace