Not able create a bean

[pkrishna]

I am new to CMR based entity beans and I am getting an error while trying to create a bean which has a relationship to another bean. This is in JBoss 320 environment. I am getting the following exception:

INFO: set: GENDER='M'
14:07:11,808 ERROR [AddressBean] Could not create entity
org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBSQLException: GDS Exception. validation error for column
ADDRESSBEAN_UPK, value "*** null ***"
at org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBPreparedStatement.internalExecute(FBPreparedSt
atement.java:458)
at org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(FBPreparedStat
ement.java:130)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedPreparedStatement.executeUpdat
e(WrappedPreparedStatement.java:308)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCAbstractCreateCommand.executeInser
t(JDBCAbstractCreateCommand.java:366)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCAbstractCreateCommand.performInser
t(JDBCAbstractCreateCommand.java:327)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCAbstractCreateCommand.execute(JDBC
AbstractCreateCommand.java:143)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.createEntity(JDBCStor
eManager.java:575)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CMPPersistenceManager.createEntity(CMPPersisten
ceManager.java:208)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.crea
teEntity(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:269)
at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.createLocalHome(EntityContainer.java:58
0)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.

Here is the content of my jbosscmp-jdbc.xml:


java:/july2003
<datasource-mapping>Firebird</datasource-mapping>
<create-table>true</create-table>
<remove-table>true</remove-table>
<pk-constraint>true</pk-constraint>
<relation-mapping-style>foreign-key</relation-mapping-style>
<read-ahead>
on-load
<page-size>500</page-size>
<eager-load-group>group name</eager-load-group>
</read-ahead>




<ejb-name>AddressBean</ejb-name>
<table-name>AddressBean</table-name>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>postalcode</field-name>
<column-name>CODE</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>street2</field-name>
<column-name>STREET2</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>street1</field-name>
<column-name>STREET1</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>region</field-name>
<column-name>REGION</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>city</field-name>
<column-name>CITY</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>country</field-name>
<column-name>COUNTRY</column-name>
</cmp-field>





<ejb-name>PersonBean</ejb-name>
<table-name>PersonBean</table-name>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>birthdate</field-name>
<column-name>BIRTHDATE</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>gender</field-name>
<column-name>GENDER</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>lastname</field-name>
<column-name>LASTNAME</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>middlename</field-name>
<column-name>MIDDLENAME</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>firstname</field-name>
<column-name>FIRSTNAME</column-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>id</field-name>
<column-name>ID</column-name>
</cmp-field>









<ejb-relation>
<ejb-relation-name>Person-HomeAddress</ejb-relation-name>
<foreign-key-mapping/>

<ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role-name>Person-has-homeAddress</ejb-relationship-role-name>
<key-fields>
<key-field>

<field-name>id</field-name>
<column-name>homeAddress</column-name>

</key-field>
</key-fields>

</ejb-relationship-role>



<ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role-name>homeAddress-belongs-to-Person</ejb-relationship-role-name>
<key-fields/>
</ejb-relationship-role>
</ejb-relation>
<ejb-relation>
<ejb-relation-name>Person-WorkAddress</ejb-relation-name>
<foreign-key-mapping />
<ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role-name>Person-has-WorkAddress</ejb-relationship-role-name>
<key-fields>
<key-field>
<field-name>id</field-name>
<column-name>workAddress</column-name>

</key-field>
</key-fields>
</ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role-name>WorkAddress-belongs-to-Person</ejb-relationship-role-name>
<key-fields/>
</ejb-relationship-role>
</ejb-relation>


Could somebody shed light on why I am getting this error? I will sure appreciate it.