Hi All,

I am getting this error when trying to get a seam managed component from a servlet.

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.javassist.tmp.java.lang.Object_$$_javassist_0
 at action.gov.hhs.fda.ocio.fdaaa.servlet.ExcelExportServlet.service(ExcelExportServlet.java:42)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

The offending line in the servlet looks like this:

DeliverableSearchAction searchAction = (DeliverableSearchAction) Component.getInstance("deliverableSearch");

The component is defined as:

@Stateful
@Name("deliverableSearch")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class DeliverableSearchAction implements DeliverableSearch, Serializable { ...

I have the following mapping in my components.xml file:

<web:context-filter url-pattern="/excel"/>

I have the following servlet mapping in my web.xml:

 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>Excel Export Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>action.gov.hhs.fda.ocio.fdaaa.servlet.ExcelExportServlet</servlet-class>
 </servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Excel Export Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/excel</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong? I'd simply like to get a reference to the seam managed bean so I can get my data from it and export it in Excel format using POI.

Any help would be much appreciated!

MG