Error when deploying a simple Entity bean (EJB3) on Glassfich or Sun AS

Question

Hi,
After some problems when deploying complex EJB3 Entity bean on GlassFich with a MySQL connector, I have made a simple entity.
(test with Glassfish and Sun AS with same result)
With netbean 5.5 => New EJB Module
File->New->Persistence Unit (and use default values)
Persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">
  <persistence-unit name="test" transaction-type="JTA">
   <provider>oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider</provider>
    <jta-data-source>jdbc/sample</jta-data-source>
    <properties>
      <property name="toplink.ddl-generation" value="create-tables"/>
    </properties>
  </persistence-unit>
</persistence>File->New->Entity Class
EntityTest.java
package test;
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
@Entity
public class EntityTest implements Serializable
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;
    /** Creates a new instance of EntityTest */
    public EntityTest()
    public Long getId()
        return id;
    public void setId(Long id)
        this.id = id;
    public String toString()
        //TODO change toString() implementation to return a better display name
        return "" + this.id;
}Build of project work fine but when I try to deploy (with the 2 servers), I have the error :
Exception occured in J2EEC Phase
com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.IASDeploymentException: Deployment Error -- null
at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:790)
at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:823)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.EjbModuleDeployer.generatePolicy(EjbModuleDeployer.java:203)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.ModuleDeployer.doRequestFinish(ModuleDeployer.java:171)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.J2EECPhase.runPhase(J2EECPhase.java:169)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.DeploymentPhase.executePhase(DeploymentPhase.java:95)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.PEDeploymentService.executePhases(PEDeploymentService.java:871)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.PEDeploymentService.deploy(PEDeploymentService.java:266)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.PEDeploymentService.deploy(PEDeploymentService.java:739)
at com.sun.enterprise.management.deploy.DeployThread.deploy(DeployThread.java:174)
at com.sun.enterprise.management.deploy.DeployThread.run(DeployThread.java:210)

Answer 1

Yes, the problem is that the ejb-jar must contain at least one ejb component. It's a common misconception that Java Persistence API Entity classes are ejb components but they are NOT. The Java Persistence API was developed within the EJB 3.0 JSR and works very well with EJB but the entity classes themselves are not full-fledged ejb components.
--ken