Hi,

I have created a EJB3 Timer bean and registered it as a seam component, but all the other components that are suppose to be  injected are null, ie no injection. Am I do anything wrong or has anyone got a working example

I initialise the timer by calling the start() methods, and then @Timeout annotates the method to be called, but this throws a null pointer when accessing any injected components
(in this case searchEngine)

thanks!

package com.ricall.services.timer.soundflavour.impl;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.annotation.Resource;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.ejb.Timeout;
import javax.ejb.Timer;
import javax.ejb.TimerService;

import org.jboss.seam.ScopeType;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.In;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Logger;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Out;
import org.jboss.seam.contexts.Contexts;
import org.jboss.seam.log.Log;

import com.ricall.domain.admin.SearchEngine;
import com.ricall.services.search.webservice.GetTrackSearchService;
import com.ricall.services.timer.soundflavour.SoundflavourHeartBeatService;
import com.sirensystems.SelectionResultSet;

@Stateless
@Name("soundflavourHeartBeatService")
public class SoundflavourHeartBeat implements SoundflavourHeartBeatService {
     @Logger
     private Log log;

     @In(required = false, scope=ScopeType.APPLICATION)
     @Out(required=false, scope=ScopeType.APPLICATION)
     private SearchEngine searchEngine;
     
     @In(required = false, scope=ScopeType.APPLICATION)
     @Out(required=false, scope=ScopeType.APPLICATION)
     private Boolean usingEmergencyDatabase;

     @Resource
     private TimerService timerService;

     @In(create = true)
     private GetTrackSearchService getTrackSearchService;

     @In(required = false, scope = ScopeType.APPLICATION)
     @Out(required = false, scope = ScopeType.APPLICATION)
     private SoundflavourHeartBeatSearch soundflavourHeartBeatSearch;

     @Timeout
     public void timeoutHandler(Timer timer) {
          try {
          log.debug("---------------------");
          log.debug("* Received Timer event: " + timer.getInfo() + searchEngine);
          searchEngine = (SearchEngine) Contexts.getApplicationContext().get("searchEngine");
          
          //If using database as default, don't check heartbeat
          if(usingEmergencyDatabase == false && searchEngine == SearchEngine.DATABASE) {
               log.debug(" Using database as default, not checking heart beat");
               return;
          }
          
          if(hasHeartBeat()) {
               log.debug("* Heart beat detected");     
               switchToSoundflavour();
          } else {
               log.debug("* No heart beat, switching to emergency database");               
               switchToEmergencyDatabase();
          }
          log.debug("---------------------");
          }catch (Exception e) {
               log.error("", e);
          }
     }



     private boolean hasHeartBeat() {
          try {
               SelectionResultSet selectionResultSet = getSongsFromCombinedSearch();
               if (selectionResultSet == null)
                    throw new NullPointerException();
               return true;
          } catch (Exception e) {
               log.error("Soundflavour not responding", e);
               return false;
          }
     }

     private void switchToEmergencyDatabase() {
          searchEngine = SearchEngine.DATABASE;
          usingEmergencyDatabase = true;
     }
     
     private void switchToSoundflavour() {
          usingEmergencyDatabase = false;
          searchEngine = SearchEngine.WEBSERVICE;
     }     

     public Timer start() {
          System.out.println("Starting timer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
          
          return timerService.createTimer(new Date(
                    System.currentTimeMillis() + 50000), 1000,
                    "soundflavour heartbeat");
     }
}