JNDI Lookup in JSP fails for EJB 3.0

Question

I am new to Java technology. I read the EJB FAQ, NetBeans docs and may forum discussions and I am still confused with the error I am having.
Background:
I have developed a persistance bean and related sessions beans (similar to the customer-cmp-ear application in the Java App Server samples). Now I am trying to access this bean using a JSP. After deploying the war file in the App Server and try to access the page, I get the following error.
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: No object bound to name java:comp/env/ConsumerSessionLocal
After reading many articles, I understood that I dont have to prepare any descriptors, or JAR files for EJB 3.0.
Environment Details:
Java App Server Ver 9.0
NetBeans 5.5
I normally build the war files using NetBeans.
I use App Server Admin console to deploy the web applications using the above war file.
EJB details:
Persistance EJB : person.java
Session Objects
Consumer.java (this implements ConsumerSessionLocal, ConsumerSessionRemote). This Stateless bean accesses the methods in person.java.
ConsumerSessionLocal.java - local interface
ConsumerSessionRemote.java - remote interface
SearchConsumer.jsp
This JSP page is calling the ConsumerSessionLocal using the JNDI lookup through InitialContext.
Here is the Code snippet:
try {
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
Object o = ic.lookup("java:comp/env/ConsumerSessionLocal");
ConsumerSessionLocal consSession = (ConsumerSessionLocal) o;
I am able to see the jsp page in the browser, however, after a submit action, I get the Java Naming Exception error.
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: No object bound for java:comp/env/ConsumerSessionLocal
I would appreciate your help/any of your thoughts.
Thanks in advance.
-Ram

Answer 1

I did not really solve it. Instead I used some of the tutorials that used JNDI lookup and modified those as my way forward. I did not really find out exactly what I was doing wrong.
/Anders