Accessing 3rd party static method from ejb3

[Norman Davis]

Hello to all, I've a long time forum browser.

I have a question regarding acessing a static method from within a @Statless bean. The company I work for has close to a dozen seperate systems, and we are attempting to reduce code redundancy by utilizing web services.

The long and short is that I need to "validate" some email addresses that have been a database for 10 + years. I can read the data just fine, but I cannot figure out how to access a static method from org.apache.commons.validator:

@PostConstruct
private void initialize()
{
     EmailValidator validator = EmailValidator.getInsance();
}

This works fine, no questions asked. However, when I try the following:

     validator.isValid ( emailAddress );

I get an invocation error and glassfish tells me to go get my shinebox. I'm guessing this has to do with accessing the static method, but I don't know. Please, any help would be enormous.

Thanks.

[Jaikiran Pai]

That doesn't look like a static method. I see that you are getting an instance of the validator and invoking on it. So I'm guessing isValid isn't really a static method. Anyway, what error/exception do you see? Please post the entire exception stacktrace.

[Thiago Alves de Moraes]

Take a look at the code inside initialize method

EmailValidator validator = EmailValidator.getInsance();  

validator is an reference inside the scope of the method.

you should create a new property of the class

EmailValidator validator ;
private void initialize()  
{  
     validator = EmailValidator.getInsance();  
}  

And then it works