EJB3 Session Bean from webproject (Netbeans 5.5.1 with Visual Web)

Question

I've been using J2EE 2 Sessoin Beans for some time but looking into moving into the new JavaEE EBJ3. I'm attempting to create a new enterprise project in netbeans and instead of using the web project that it creates I've created a visual web project and attached it to the enterprise project. Everything works great other than the fact that I cannot looking any Session Beans in my context. The logic that is calling the session bean lookup in the Bean of the webpage using JSF. Upon an action being called I'm attempting to lookup the session bean but I get name NameNotFound everyway I try. Below is the sample code. I'm trying injection but it doesn't appear to work from with the JSF Model Bean.
* Page1.java
* Created on September 1, 2007, 1:00 AM
* Copyright smileyq
package demo;
import com.demo.aps.ejb.session.AuthenticationManagerLocal;
import com.demo.aps.ejb.session.HelloWorldLocal;
import com.demo.aps.model.AuthCredentials;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.AbstractPageBean;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Body;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Button;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Form;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Head;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Html;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Link;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.Page;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.PasswordField;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.StaticText;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.component.TextField;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.faces.FacesException;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
* <p>Page bean that corresponds to a similarly named JSP page.  This
* class contains component definitions (and initialization code) for
* all components that you have defined on this page, as well as
* lifecycle methods and event handlers where you may add behavior
* to respond to incoming events.</p>
public class Page1 extends AbstractPageBean
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Managed Component Definition">
    private int __placeholder;
    @EJB private HelloWorldLocal hwLocalRef;
     * <p>Automatically managed component initialization.  <strong>WARNING:</strong>
     * This method is automatically generated, so any user-specified code inserted
     * here is subject to being replaced.</p>
    private void _init () throws Exception
    private Page page1 = new Page ();
    public Page getPage1 ()
        return page1;
    public void setPage1 (Page p)
        this.page1 = p;
    private Html html1 = new Html ();
    public Html getHtml1 ()
        return html1;
    public void setHtml1 (Html h)
        this.html1 = h;
    private Head head1 = new Head ();
    public Head getHead1 ()
        return head1;
    public void setHead1 (Head h)
        this.head1 = h;
    private Link link1 = new Link ();
    public Link getLink1 ()
        return link1;
    public void setLink1 (Link l)
        this.link1 = l;
    private Body body1 = new Body ();
    public Body getBody1 ()
        return body1;
    public void setBody1 (Body b)
        this.body1 = b;
    private Form form1 = new Form ();
    public Form getForm1 ()
        return form1;
    public void setForm1 (Form f)
        this.form1 = f;
    private StaticText staticText1 = new StaticText ();
    public StaticText getStaticText1 ()
        return staticText1;
    public void setStaticText1 (StaticText st)
        this.staticText1 = st;
    private TextField usernameTxt = new TextField ();
    public TextField getUsernameTxt ()
        return usernameTxt;
    public void setUsernameTxt (TextField tf)
        this.usernameTxt = tf;
    private PasswordField passwordTxt = new PasswordField ();
    public PasswordField getPasswordTxt ()
        return passwordTxt;
    public void setPasswordTxt (PasswordField pf)
        this.passwordTxt = pf;
    private Button loginBtn = new Button ();
    public Button getLoginBtn ()
        return loginBtn;
    public void setLoginBtn (Button b)
        this.loginBtn = b;
    // </editor-fold>
     * <p>Construct a new Page bean instance.</p>
    public Page1 ()
     * <p>Callback method that is called whenever a page is navigated to,
     * either directly via a URL, or indirectly via page navigation.
     * Customize this method to acquire resources that will be needed
     * for event handlers and lifecycle methods, whether or not this
     * page is performing post back processing.</p>
     * <p>Note that, if the current request is a postback, the property
     * values of the components do <strong>not</strong> represent any
     * values submitted with this request.  Instead, they represent the
     * property values that were saved for this view when it was rendered.</p>
    public void init ()
        // Perform initializations inherited from our superclass
        super.init ();
        // Perform application initialization that must complete
        // *before* managed components are initialized
        // TODO - add your own initialiation code here
        // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Managed Component Initialization">
        // Initialize automatically managed components
        // *Note* - this logic should NOT be modified
        try
            _init ();
        catch (Exception e)
            log ("Page1 Initialization Failure", e);
            throw e instanceof FacesException ? (FacesException) e: new FacesException (e);
        // </editor-fold>
        // Perform application initialization that must complete
        // *after* managed components are initialized
        // TODO - add your own initialization code here
     * <p>Callback method that is called after the component tree has been
     * restored, but before any event processing takes place.  This method
     * will <strong>only</strong> be called on a postback request that
     * is processing a form submit.  Customize this method to allocate
     * resources that will be required in your event handlers.</p>
    public void preprocess ()
     * <p>Callback method that is called just before rendering takes place.
     * This method will <strong>only</strong> be called for the page that
     * will actually be rendered (and not, for example, on a page that
     * handled a postback and then navigated to a different page).  Customize
     * this method to allocate resources that will be required for rendering
     * this page.</p>
    public void prerender ()
     * <p>Callback method that is called after rendering is completed for
     * this request, if <code>init()</code> was called (regardless of whether
     * or not this was the page that was actually rendered).  Customize this
     * method to release resources acquired in the <code>init()</code>,
     * <code>preprocess()</code>, or <code>prerender()</code> methods (or
     * acquired during execution of an event handler).</p>
    public void destroy ()
     * <p>Return a reference to the scoped data bean.</p>
    protected SessionBean1 getSessionBean1 ()
        return (SessionBean1)getBean("SessionBean1");
     * <p>Return a reference to the scoped data bean.</p>
    protected RequestBean1 getRequestBean1 ()
        return (RequestBean1)getBean("RequestBean1");
     * <p>Return a reference to the scoped data bean.</p>
    protected ApplicationBean1 getApplicationBean1 ()
        return (ApplicationBean1)getBean("ApplicationBean1");
    public String loginBtn_action ()
        // TODO: Process the button click action. Return value is a navigation
        // case name where null will return to the same page.
        AuthCredentials credentials = new AuthCredentials();
        credentials.setUsername (usernameTxt.getText ().toString ());
        credentials.setPassword (passwordTxt.getText().toString ());
        hwLocalRef.printHello ();
        return null;
}

Answer 1

Hi,
I've had the very same problem with RAD.
Try to set the Transaction attribute to SUPPORTS. With SUPPORTS the EJB method will use the same transaction as the caller.
package hu.bme.ett.raktar.facade;
import hu.bme.ett.raktar.ejbs.Raktar;
import hu.bme.ett.raktar.ejbs.controller.RaktarManager;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.ejb.TransactionAttribute;
import javax.ejb.TransactionAttributeType;
@Stateless
@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.SUPPORTS)
public class RaktarListazas implements RaktarListazasLocal {
     RaktarManager rm = new RaktarManager();
     * Default constructor.
    public RaktarListazas() {
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    public Raktar getRaktar(long raktId) {
         return rm.findRaktarByRaktId(raktId);
    public void createRaktar(long raktId) {
         Raktar r = new Raktar();
         r.setRaktId(raktId);
         r.setRaktAzonosito("Y1RAK-01" + raktId);
         r.setMegnevezes("Elso raktaram");
         try {
               rm.createRaktar(r);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
}Cheers,
Viktor