Injecting EJB into servlet

[Alejandro Dominguez]

Hi to all,

my ear file contains the ejb.jar and webapp.war files; in my webapp I have a servlet into which I'd like to inject an EJB reference.

From the servlet, the following code works perfectly:

 TestBeanLocal testBeanLocal = (TestBeanLocal)context.lookup("EJBrecomender/TestBean/local");   

However, trying to achieve the same by injection, results in a NullPointerException as soon as I try to run one of the bean's methods

 @EJB
private TestBeanLocal testBeanLocal;   

Am I missing something here?

Regards

[Lave Kulshreshtha]

Can you please provide some more details?

-Lave

[Vesa Tanhua-Tyrkk�]

Hi,

I think that injection is not possible in web tier.
So jndi lookup is the only possible option.

[Edvins Reisons]

Alejandro,

you may want to check your server against the list of Java EE 5 compatible servers here

[PK Ghosh]

Hey,

I know JBoss 4.0.4 does not support EJB injection into servlet container. It suppose to fix on 5.0

[Alejandro Dominguez]

I'm Using JBoss 4.2.2 GA, so maybe that's the problem... oh well, I'll stick to jndi lookup meanwhile.

Thanks!

[Jaikiran Pai]

Yes, JBoss4.2.2 does not support EJB injection in servlets.