"jndi:ejb not bound" error while deploying EJB

[Ananth Vasudevan]

I'm trying to Deploy an EJB in JBoss 5.1GA and getting a "jndi:ejb not bound" error and the deployment fails.
Below is the information about my deployment.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Code :

public static final String SEQUENCE_JNDI_NAME = "java:comp/env/ejb/cc/Sequence"; 
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
EJBLocalHome homeInterface = (EJBLocalHome) ctx.lookup(SEQUENCE_JNDI_NAME);

ejb-jar.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ejb-jar version="3.0"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd">

<enterprise-beans>
	<session id="Sequence">
	<ejb-name>Sequence</ejb-name>
	<local-home>com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.SequenceLocalHome</local-home>
	<local>com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.SequenceLocal</local>
	<ejb-class>com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.SequenceBean</ejb-class>
	<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
	<transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type>
	<resource-ref>
		<res-ref-name>jdbc/SampleDB</res-ref-name>
		<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
		<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
	</resource-ref>
	</session>
</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

jboss.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 5.0//EN"
      "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_5_0.dtd">

<jboss>
<enterprise-beans>
	<session>
		<ejb-name>Sequence</ejb-name>
		<local-jndi-name>ejb/cc/Sequence</local-jndi-name>
		<resource-ref>
		<res-ref-name>jdbc/SampleDB</res-ref-name>
		<jndi-name>java:/SampleDB</jndi-name>
		</resource-ref>			
	</session>
</enterprise-beans>
</jboss>

jndi.properties inside server/all/conf:

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces
java.naming.provider.url=jnp://localhost:1099

JNDI View (from JMX-Console):

java:comp namespace of the component jboss.j2ee:ear=cc.ear,jar=ccsg-ejb-module.jar,name=Sequence,service=EJB3 :

  +- EJBContext (class: javax.ejb.EJBContext)
  +- env (class: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext)
  +- ORB[link -> java:/JBossCorbaORB] (class: javax.naming.LinkRef)

JBoss start-up Logs when the EJB gets deployed:

14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel] installing bean: jboss.j2ee:ear=cc.ear,jar=ccsg-ejb-module.jar,name=Sequence,service=EJB3
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]   with dependencies:
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]   and demands:
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      jboss.ejb:service=EJBTimerService
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      jndi:ejb/cc/LoggerConfigurator
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]   and supplies:
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      jndi:ejb/cc/Sequence
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      Class:com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.SequenceLocalHome
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      jndi:cc/Sequence/local
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      jndi:cc/Sequence/localHome
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      jndi:cc/Sequence/local-com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.Sequence
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      jndi:cc/Sequence/remote
14:51:26,141 INFO  [JBossASKernel]      Class:com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.Sequence


Exception Thrown:
14:57:50,484 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Start: name=com.bb.cc.bl.init:service=InitService state=Create mode=Manual requiredState=Installed
com.bb.cc.bl.exceptions.BaseUncheckedException: jndi:ejb not bound
	at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:771)
	at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:779)
	at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getObject(NamingServer.java:785)
	at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.lookup(NamingServer.java:396)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor317.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:305)
	at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:159)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:155)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:535)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:790)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:649)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
	at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:255)
	at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:233)
	at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:142)
	at org.jnp.server.NamingServer_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source)
	at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:726)
	at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:686)
	at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392)
	at com.bb.cc.bl.util.BeanHelper.lookupLocalHomeInterface(BeanHelper.java:653)
	at com.bb.cc.bl.util.BeanHelper.getSequence(BeanHelper.java:880)
	at com.bb.cc.bl.init.InitService.startService(InitService.java:104)
	at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:376)
	at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:322)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor80.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:157)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:96)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
	at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:668)
	at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceProxy.java:189)
	at $Proxy38.start(Unknown Source)
	at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.StartStopLifecycleAction.installAction(StartStopLifecycleAction.java:42)
	at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.StartStopLifecycleAction.installAction(StartStopLifecycleAction.java:37)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.action.SimpleControllerContextAction.simpleInstallAction(SimpleControllerContextAction.java:62)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.action.AccessControllerContextAction.install(AccessControllerContextAction.java:71)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContextActions.install(AbstractControllerContextActions.java:51)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
	at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceControllerContext.install(ServiceControllerContext.java:286)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
	at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.doChange(ServiceController.java:688)
	at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:460)
	at org.jboss.system.deployers.ServiceDeployer.start(ServiceDeployer.java:163)
	at org.jboss.system.deployers.ServiceDeployer.deploy(ServiceDeployer.java:99)
	at org.jboss.system.deployers.ServiceDeployer.deploy(ServiceDeployer.java:46)
	at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.java:62)
	at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1439)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1157)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1178)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1210)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1098)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:781)
	at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:702)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:361)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
	at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.activateProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:306)
	at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:271)
	at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)
	at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)
	at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

[Jaikiran Pai]

Looks like you are using EJB2 beans. If so, switch to 2.1 xsd in ejb-jar.xml instead of 3.0:

<ejb-jar xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/ejb-jar_2_1.xsd" version="2.1">

[Ananth Vasudevan]

Hi Jaikiran,

I changed the XSD in the ejb-jar.xml and got a "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null dependency".
Any ideas as to what tags I should look for to rectify in the ejb-jar.xml?

Stack Trace:

10:53:11,405 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Real: name=vfszip:/opt/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/all/deploy/cc.ear/ state=PreReal mode=Manual requiredState=Real
org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error during deploy: vfszip:/opt/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/all/deploy/cc.ear/ccsg-ejb-module.jar/
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:177)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1439)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1157)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1210)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1098)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:781)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:702)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:361)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)
        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.activateProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:306)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:271)
        at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)
        at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)
        at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null dependency
        at org.jboss.system.metadata.ServiceDependencyValueMetaData.setDependency(ServiceDependencyValueMetaData.java:113)
        at org.jboss.ejb.deployers.EjbDeployer.deploy(EjbDeployer.java:341)
        at org.jboss.ejb.deployers.EjbDeployer.deploy(EjbDeployer.java:73)
        at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractSimpleVFSRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractSimpleVFSRealDeployer.java:56)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.java:62)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
        ... 30 more
10:53:11,568 ERROR [ProfileServiceBootstrap] Failed to load profile: Summary of incomplete deployments (SEE PREVIOUS ERRORS FOR DETAILS):

[Jaikiran Pai]

Post the contents of your latest ejb-jar.xml and jboss.xml

[Ananth Vasudevan]

Hi Jaikiran,

I had removed the ejb2-timer-service.xml from the all/deploy directory? Is that going to be a problem in JBoss 5.1?
By looking at the stack trace, I looked up some other posts and JBoss code and see that the "Null dependency" is thrown
if the timer is null in the deploy(function) in EjbDeployer.java.
I added the ejb2-timer-service.xml and replaced it with my Datasource name and still had a problem.
Then I changed the following in ejb2-timer-service.xml and still got the same null dependency error:

Commented the MBean:

<mbean code="org.jboss.ejb.txtimer.DatabasePersistencePolicy" name="jboss.ejb:service=EJBTimerService,persistencePolicy=database">

and uncommented:

<mbean code="org.jboss.ejb.txtimer.NoopPersistencePolicy" name="jboss.ejb:service=EJBTimerService,persistencePolicy=noop"/>

and then changed the persistence policy from "database" to "noop" in the following mbean in the same ejb2-timer-service.xml:

<mbean code="org.jboss.ejb.txtimer.EJBTimerServiceImpl"

jboss.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 5.0//EN"
      "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_5_0.dtd">
<jboss>
<enterprise-beans>
	<session>
	<ejb-name>Sequence</ejb-name>
	<local-jndi-name>ejb/cc/Sequence</local-jndi-name>
	<resource-ref>
	<res-ref-name>jdbc/SampleDB</res-ref-name>
	<jndi-name>java:/SampleDB</jndi-name>
	</resource-ref>			
	</session>
</enterprise-beans>
</jboss>

ejb-jar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ejb-jar xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"  
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee  
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/ejb-jar_2_1.xsd"  
    version="2.1">
	<enterprise-beans>
		<session id="Sequence">
			<ejb-name>Sequence</ejb-name>
			<local-home>com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.SequenceLocalHome</local-home>
			<local>com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.SequenceLocal</local>
			<ejb-class>com.bb.cc.bl.sequence.SequenceBean</ejb-class>
			<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
			<transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type>
			<ejb-local-ref>
				<ejb-ref-name>ejb/cc/LoggerConfigurator</ejb-ref-name>
				<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
				<local-home>com.bb.cc.bl.logger.LoggerConfiguratorLocalHome</local-home>
				<local>com.bb.cc.bl.logger.LoggerConfiguratorLocal</local>
				<ejb-link>LoggerConfigurator</ejb-link>
			</ejb-local-ref>
			<resource-ref>
				<res-ref-name>jdbc/SampleDB</res-ref-name>
				<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
				<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
			</resource-ref>
		</session>
	</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>