using EJB to connect to LDAP with weblogic5.1

[ron ray chaudhuri]

I'm writing an application which retrieves some information from an LDAP directory. When my client is instantiating the EJB I'm getting the following error.

public class ClientMos
{
.....
public void makeConnection() {
try {
MoveMosUtil.log("making connection to SecureWay directory");
//empty contructor used to initialise bean
ctx_context = getInitialContext();
MoveMosUtil.log("context initialised");

MoveMosUtil.log("before home variable initialised");
home = (MoveMosHome) ctx_context.lookup("moveMos.MoveMosHome");
MoveMosUtil.log("home variable initialised");
MoveMosUtil.log(home.create().getClass().getName());
remote = (MoveMosRemote) home.create();
....
....
}
}
Output:
making connection to SecureWay directory
context initialised
Error in makeConnection procedure
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.eds.eoi.tools.ejb.movemos.MoveMosBeanHomeImpl
ServiceStub
at com.eds.eoi.tools.client.ClientMos.makeConnection(ClientMos.java:123
at jsp_servlet._movemos._selectorganisationalunit._jspService(_selector
anisationalunit.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubI
pl.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubI
pl.java:138)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispa
cherImpl.java:158)
at com.eds.eoi.tools.servlet.MoveMosServlet.service(MoveMosServlet.java
154)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubI
pl.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletCo
textImpl.java:915)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletCo
textImpl.java:879)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextManager.invokeServlet(Servle
ContextManager.java:269)
at weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.invokeServlet(MuxableSocketHTTP.ja
a:365)
at weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.execute(MuxableSocketHTTP.java:253
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:129)
Error in setDisplayOUList procedure
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.eds.eoi.tools.client.ClientMos.setDisplayOUList(ClientMos.java:1
1)
at jsp_servlet._movemos._selectorganisationalunit._jspService(_selector
anisationalunit.java:121)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubI
pl.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubI
pl.java:138)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispa
cherImpl.java:158)
at com.eds.eoi.tools.servlet.MoveMosServlet.service(MoveMosServlet.java
154)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubI
pl.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletCo
textImpl.java:915)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletCo
textImpl.java:879)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextManager.invokeServlet(Servle
ContextManager.java:269)
at weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.invokeServlet(MuxableSocketHTTP.ja
a:365)
at weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.execute(MuxableSocketHTTP.java:253
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:129)
My descriptor files all have the correct definitions and mapping to the corresponding JNDI name as follows:
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>moveMos</ejb-name>
<caching-descriptor>
<max-beans-in-cache>100</max-beans-in-cache>
</caching-descriptor>
<jndi-name>moveMos.MoveMosHome</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>
My ejb-jar.xml is as follows:
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<session>
<description></description>
<ejb-name>moveMos</ejb-name>
<home>com.eds.eoi.tools.ejb.movemos.MoveMosHome</home>
<remote>com.eds.eoi.tools.ejb.movemos.MoveMosRemote</remote>
<ejb-class>com.eds.eoi.tools.ejb.movemos.MoveMosBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
</session>
</enterprise-beans>
<assembly-descriptor>
<container-transaction>
<method>
<ejb-name>moveMos</ejb-name>
<method-name>*</method-name>
</method>
<trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
</container-transaction>
</assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>
I'm using weblogic 5.1 sp9.
Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance.
[ October 16, 2003: Message edited by: ron ray chaudhuri ]