3 Replies Latest reply on Aug 11, 2010 6:03 PM by sbromberg

    web service component injection is null

    mdurant.mark.durant.fiserv.com

      I've created a bare-bones Seam project for web service testing using JBoss Tools in Eclipse, and I've modified its default AuthenticatorAction to this:


      @Stateless(name = "AuthenticatorAction")
      @Name("authenticator")
      public class AuthenticatorAction implements Authenticator {
           public boolean authenticate() {
                return true;
           }
      
           public String getEchoBack() {
                return "echoBack!";
           }
      }



      I've deployed the project successfully to the server, and am able to log in through the generated home/login process.  The getEchoBack method is used by a web service SLSB which I've also added to the project:


      @Stateless
      @Name("echo")
      @WebService(name = "EchoService", serviceName = "EchoService")
      public class EchoService implements EchoServiceInterface {
           @In
           AuthenticatorAction authenticator;
           
           @WebMethod
           public String echo(String in) {          
                return authenticator.getEchoBack() + ": " + in;
           }
      }



      And the EchoServiceInterface is simply:


      @Local
      public interface EchoServiceInterface {
           public String echo(String in);
      }



      When I deploy this to my app server, I see the service successfully deployed inside of the main ear, and I'm able to view the server-generated WSDL.  I can also do a test request/response against the service, so long as I don't try to get anything from the authenticator.  When I add the call to authenticator.getEchoBack(), though, the authenticator object is always null, and the service call fails.


      I've tried many little adjustments to make it work, including adding create=true to the @In annotation for the authenticator, as well as taking out the injection altogether and using:


      AuthenticatorAction authenticator =
           (AuthenticatorAction)Component.getInstance(AuthenticatorAction.class);



      When I try that, though, I get the following error:


      Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active
           at org.jboss.seam.Component.forName(Component.java:1945)
           at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:2005)
      ...



      I read this morning where I can add LifeCycle calls to fix that problem, so I next tried:


      @WebMethod
           public String echo(String in) {
                Lifecycle.beginCall();
                AuthenticatorAction authenticator = (AuthenticatorAction) Component
                          .getInstance(AuthenticatorAction.class);
                Lifecycle.endCall();
                return authenticator.getEchoBack() + ": " + in;
           }



      When I do that, though, I hit the next wall:


      EJB Exception: : org.jboss.seam.InstantiationException: Could not instantiate Seam component: authenticator
           at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:2144)
           at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:2021)
           at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1983)
      ...
      Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to look up comp/env/main-ear/AuthenticatorAction/local in /app/ejb/main-ejb.jar#EchoService.; remaining name 'comp/env/main-ear/AuthenticatorAction/local'
           at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.newNameNotFoundException(BasicNamingNode.java:1139)
           at weblogic.jndi.internal.ApplicationNamingNode.lookup(ApplicationNamingNode.java:144)
           at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLEventContextImpl.lookup(WLEventContextImpl.java:254)
           at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLContextImpl.lookup(WLContextImpl.java:380)...



      I'm at a loss as to what to try next.  Please help!


      Thanks,
      Mark