JSF - NameNotFoundException

Question

Hi there.
I am using JBoss 4.2, JSF 1.2 and Hibernate for my Webapp. I have 4 projects (EJB/JSF/EAR/EJBClient). I am trying to persist my entity bean via JNDI. And I am getting the following exception:
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: ServerSession not bound
I am posting some sourcecode but I will try to keep it simple so that you dont have to read to much, promised. I have the following interface implemented:
package mypackage...;
import javax.ejb.Local;
import mypackage....User;
@Local
public interface *ServerSessionLocalIF* {
     public Boolean login(String name, String password);
     public User getUser();
}and the class using this interface looks like:
package mypackage...;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.Stateful;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.Query;
import mypackage....User;
@Stateful
public class ServerSession *implements ServerSessionLocalIF {
     public static final String LocalJNDIName =  ServerSession.class.getSimpleName() + "/local";
     @PersistenceContext
     private EntityManager entityManager;
     private User user;
     public ServerSession() {}
     public User getUser() {
          return user;
     public Boolean login(String name, String password) {
          User user = new User();
          user.setName(name);
          user.setPassword(password);
          entityManager.persist(user);
          return true;
}Now the following class throws a runtime exception that the bean cant be found (caused by the naming exception). Does anyone know how to get this work? What is missing for my context lookup to get work?
package mypackage;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
public class EJBService {
     private static EJBService singleton;
     private static Context ctx;
     private EJBService() throws NamingException{
          if (ctx == null) {
               ctx = new InitialContext();
    public static <T> T lookup(Class<T> ejbClassType, String name) {
          if (singleton == null) {
               try {
                    singleton = new EJBService();
               catch (NamingException ne) {
                 throw new RuntimeException(ne.getLocalizedMessage(), ne);
        try {
            final Object object = ctx.lookup(name);
            if (ejbClassType.isAssignableFrom(object.getClass())) {
                return (T) object;
            } else {
                throw new RuntimeException(String.format(
                        "Class found: %s cannot be assigned to type: %s",
                        object.getClass(), ejbClassType));
        } catch (NamingException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(String.format(
                    "Unable to find ejb for %s", ejbClassType.getName()), e);
}Edited by: Tashtego2008 on Dec 13, 2008 3:44 AM

Answer 1

Found the solution myself, but dont really know why. Within the EJBService class i have to modify the lookup like following:
final Object object = ctx.lookup("MyProjectname/" + name);Now it works.