Error in weblogic.ejbc while deploying the CMP entity bean.!!!

Question

Tried to deploy the entity bean[CMP] with the following folder structure.
examples [package]
Product.class
productBean.class
etc.
META-INF
ejb-jar.xml
weblogic-ejb-jar.xml.
weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml
created a jar..with the following command
1.jar cvf rgegcmp.jar examples META-INF
tried to create the stubs and skeletons using weblogic.ejbc command.
2. java weblogic.ejbc rgegcmp.jar rgegcmp1.jar
C:\btcomprj\BTCOMPRJ\classes>java weblogic.ejbc rgegcmp.jar rgegcmp1.jar
<Oct 11, 2004 4:29:29 PM IST> <Warning> <EJB> <010054> <EJB Deployment: Product has a
class examples.ProductBean which is in
the classpath. This class should only be located in the ejb-jar file.>
<Oct 11, 2004 4:29:29 PM IST> <Warning> <EJB> <010054> <EJB Deployment: Product has a
class examples.ProductHome which is in
the classpath. This class should only be located in the ejb-jar file.>
<Oct 11, 2004 4:29:29 PM IST> <Warning> <EJB> <010054> <EJB Deployment: Product has a
class examples.Product which is in the
classpath. This class should only be located in the ejb-jar file.>
<Oct 11, 2004 4:29:29 PM IST> <Warning> <EJB> <010054> <EJB Deployment: Product has a
class examples.ProductLocalHome which i
s in the classpath. This class should only be located in the ejb-jar file.>
<Oct 11, 2004 4:29:29 PM IST> <Warning> <EJB> <010054> <EJB Deployment: Product has a
class examples.ProductLocal which is in
the classpath. This class should only be located in the ejb-jar file.>
<Oct 11, 2004 4:29:29 PM IST> <Warning> <EJB> <010054> <EJB Deployment: Product has a
class examples.ProductPK which is in th
e classpath. This class should only be located in the ejb-jar file.>
ERROR: Error from ejbc: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
weblogic.ejb20.deployer.CompositeMBeanDescriptor.getPersistenceUseIdentifier(Composite
MBeanDescriptor.java:1484)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.CMPInfoImpl.<init>(CMPInfoImpl.java:104)
at
weblogic.ejb20.deployer.EntityBeanInfoImpl.<init>(EntityBeanInfoImpl.java:135)
at
weblogic.ejb20.deployer.BeanInfoImpl.createBeanInfoImpl(BeanInfoImpl.java:349)
at
weblogic.ejb20.deployer.MBeanDeploymentInfoImpl.initializeBeanInfos(MBeanDeploymentInf
oImpl.java:438)
at
weblogic.ejb20.deployer.MBeanDeploymentInfoImpl.<init>(MBeanDeploymentInfoImpl.java:16
5)
at weblogic.ejb20.ejbc.EJBCompiler.setupEJB(EJBCompiler.java:151)
at weblogic.ejb20.ejbc.EJBCompiler.compileEJB(EJBCompiler.java:332)
at weblogic.ejbc20.runBody(ejbc20.java:479)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:126)
at weblogic.ejbc.main(ejbc.java:29)
ERROR: ejbc found errors
1. want to know why Null pointer exception is thrown by 'weblogic.ejbc'...
is it indicating an error in my code(bean); .....
i dont know how to fix the error.
find the deployments descriptors which i have written for deployment.
weblogic-ejb-jar.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE weblogic-ejb-jar PUBLIC
'-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 7.0.0 EJB//EN'
'http://www.bea.com/servers/wls700/dtd/weblogic-ejb-jar.dtd'>
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>Product</ejb-name>
<jndi-name>rgexample</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>
ejb-jar.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<entity>
<ejb-name>Product</ejb-name>
<home>examples.ProductHome</home>
<remote>examples.Product</remote>
<local-home>examples.ProductLocalHome</local-home>
<local>examples.ProductLocal</local>
<ejb-class>examples.ProductBean</ejb-class>
<persistence-type>Container</persistence-type>
<prim-key-class>examples.ProductPK</prim-key-class>
<reentrant>False</reentrant>
<cmp-version>2.x</cmp-version>
<abstract-schema-name>ProductBean</abstract-schema-name>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>productID</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>name</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>description</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<field-name>basePrice</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<query>
<query-method>
<method-name>findByName</method-name>
<method-params>
<method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
</method-params>
</query-method>
<ejb-ql>
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM ProductBean AS a WHERE name =
?1]]>
</ejb-ql>
</query>
<query>
<query-method>
<method-name>findByDescription</method-name>
<method-params>
<method-param>java.lang.String</method-param>
</method-params>
</query-method>
<ejb-ql>
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM ProductBean AS a WHERE description
= ?1]]>
</ejb-ql>
</query>
<query>
<query-method>
<method-name>findByBasePrice</method-name>
<method-params>
<method-param>double</method-param>
</method-params>
</query-method>
<ejb-ql>
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM ProductBean AS a WHERE basePrice =
?1]]>
</ejb-ql>
</query>
<query>
<query-method>
<method-name>findExpensiveProducts</method-name>
<method-params>
<method-param>double</method-param>
</method-params>
</query-method>
<ejb-ql>
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM ProductBean AS a WHERE basePrice >
?1]]>
</ejb-ql>
</query>
<query>
<query-method>
<method-name>findCheapProducts</method-name>
<method-params>
<method-param>double</method-param>
</method-params>
</query-method>
<ejb-ql>
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM ProductBean AS a WHERE basePrice < ?1]]>
</ejb-ql>
</query>
<query>
<query-method>
<method-name>findAllProducts</method-name>
<method-params>
</method-params>
</query-method>
<ejb-ql>
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM ProductBean AS a WHERE productID
IS NOT NULL]]>
</ejb-ql>
</query>
</entity>
</enterprise-beans>
<assembly-descriptor>
<container-transaction>
<method>
<ejb-name>Product</ejb-name>
<method-intf>Remote</method-intf>
<method-name>*</method-name>
</method>
<trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
</container-transaction>
</assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>
weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml
<!DOCTYPE weblogic-rdbms-jar PUBLIC
'-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 7.0.0 EJB RDBMS Persistence//EN'
'http://www.bea.com/servers/wls700/dtd/weblogic-rdbms20-persistence-700.dtd'>
<weblogic-rdbms-jar>
<weblogic-rdbms-bean>
<ejb-name>Product</ejb-name>
<data-source-name>examples-dataSource-demoPool</data-source-name>
<table-map>
<table-name>TORDER</table-name>
<field-map>
<cmp-field>productID</cmp-field>
<dbms-column>PRODUCTID</dbms-column>
</field-map>
<field-map>
<cmp-field>name</cmp-field>
<dbms-column>NAME</dbms-column>
</field-map>
<field-map>
<cmp-field>description</cmp-field>
<dbms-column>DESCRIPTION</dbms-column>
</field-map>
<field-map>
<cmp-field>basePrice</cmp-field>
<dbms-column>BASEPRICE</dbms-column>
</field-map>
</table-map>
</weblogic-rdbms-bean>
<create-default-dbms-tables>True</create-default-dbms-tables>
</weblogic-rdbms-jar>

Answer 1

If you can have a look at a cmp example in the samples that ship with the server. My guess is that the weblogic-ejb-jar.xml file is missing the <persistence-use> element which for 810 would look like:
<persistence>
<persistence-use>
<type-identifier>WebLogic_CMP_RDBMS</type-identifier>
<type-version>7.0</type-version>
<type-storage>META-INF/weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml</type-storage>
</persistence-use>
</persistence>
I seem to recall that the elements might be slightly different in structure for the wls700 version of the DTD, so please check that (I cannot, I'm at home and don't have everything here).
Give that a try and see if it doesn't solve your compilation failure.
Also, the compilation should not be throwing a null pointer exception in a case like that, I consider that to be a bug.
-thorick