SessionBean visibility: Target Unreachable, identifier 'register' resolved to null

[bhanchand.prasad_bhanchand.indus-tech.com]

Websphere 7.0.13 using RAD 8.0.1
Seam 2.2 GA


"Runtime error:
Caused by: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: register.xhtml @18,85 action="#{register.register}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'register' resolved to null"

Ear deployed with no errors
register.xhtml
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<h:commandButton type="submit" value="Register" action="#{register.register}"/>



SessionBean in the EJB Module
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`@Stateless                                                                             
@Name("register")
@JndiName("ejblocal:org.RegisterAction")
public class RegisterAction implements Register
{

   @In
   private User user;
  
   @PersistenceContext                                                                  
   private EntityManager em;
  
   @Logger                                                                              
   private Log log;
  
   public String register()                                                             
   {
      List existing = em.createQuery(
         "select username from User where username=#{user.username}")                   
         .getResultList();
        
      if (existing.size()==0)
      {
         em.persist(user);
         log.info("Registered new user #{user.username}");                              
         return "/registered.jspx";                                                     
      }
      else
      {
         FacesMessages.instance().add("User #{user.username} already exists");         
         return null;
      }
   }

}`




|Components.xml
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   <!--   <core:init debug="true" jndi-pattern="@jndiPattern@"/>-->
   <core:init jndi-pattern="java:comp/env/#{ejbName}"   debug="true" />

ejb-jar.xml
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   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <ejb-jar 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/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd"
            version="3.0">
  
     <interceptors>
       <interceptor>
         <interceptor-class>
           org.jboss.seam.ejb.SeamInterceptor
         </interceptor-class>
       </interceptor>
     </interceptors>
    
     <assembly-descriptor>
       <interceptor-binding>
         <ejb-name>*</ejb-name>
         <interceptor-class>
           org.jboss.seam.ejb.SeamInterceptor
         </interceptor-class>
       </interceptor-binding>
     </assembly-descriptor>
    
</ejb-jar>

application.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application 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/application_5.xsd"
     version="5">

     <display-name>@earProjectName@</display-name>

     <!-- JBIDE-4166 Workaround - Make sure we deploy this first, since this is referenced in xxx-ejb.jar-->
     <module>
          <ejb>jboss-seam.jar</ejb>
     </module>
     
     <module>
          <web>
               <web-uri>XyzEAR.war</web-uri>
               <context-root>/XyzEAR</context-root>
          </web>
     </module>

     <module>
          <ejb>XyzEjb.jar</ejb>
     </module>

</application>|

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

BP