Integration

what happened when you tried the EJB annotation without any parameters?

null pointer exception. That was why I started experimenting with different options.

is this on a JEE6 or JEE5 container?

If JEE5, you need at least a local interface. Although the JNDI lookup should have also failed then... I'm stumped. Just for the sake of ruling out possibilities, what if you do add a local interface to the EJB? Does the problem go away then? Do remove the annotation parameter, you shouldn't need it.

I'm running in Glassfish 3.0.1 Java EE 6. I added a local interface but I get the same null pointer exception. By the way I am new to beans.

Okay. So no injections are happening in the servlet. Do injections in other resources work?

For the sake of completeness, post your web.xml please.

Here's my application.xml for my ear file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<application
  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/application_6.xsd"
  version="6">

  <application-name>testapp</application-name>

  <module>
    <web>
      <web-uri>webclient.war</web-uri>
      <context-root>client</context-root>
    </web>
  </module>

  <module>
    <ejb>webbean.jar</ejb>
  </module>

</application>

Here's the web.xml for my webclient.war:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app
  version="2.4"
  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/web-app_2_4.xsd">

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Inform</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>test.InformServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Inform</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/inform</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

I'm not using using an ejb-jar.xml file in the ebj jar. That's optional right?

Also to answer your question I made a separate test web module and placed a test bean inside of it using annotations in a test servlet and bean. I deployed the module to glassfish and it worked perfectly.

That was the problem. Thanks a bunch. I updated to the 3.0 schema: http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd