Migration from Jdeveloper 11g r1 to 11g r2 problem

Question

Hi all
I have a project initially created in Jdeveloper 11g r1
after migrating it to Jdeveloper 11g r2 i tried to replace lookup ejb invocation to dependency injection.
So i used @EJB annotation in my managed bean. I'm shure there could be no mistakes in the way how i used this anno, i did it many times
it looks something like this
@EJB(name="StatelessSessionEJBEx",beanInterface =StatelessSessionEJBEx.class, beanName = "StatelessSessionEJBEx")
as a result it generated an exception which said that the EJB interface could not be found, though all dependencies between business and view projects are in place. After a while i figured out that the problem is it used JSF 1.2 specification instead of 2.0 so i replaced the version of JSF in managed been source code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251"?>
<faces-config version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"> ....
but it seemed to make no effect at all.
So are there any guesses what i did wrong
Thanks. Alex.

Answer 1

Hi,
the server used by JDeveloper 11g R2 is a patched WLS 10.3.5 or 10.1.3.6 server (depends on teh JDeveloper version), which is not a Java EE 6 version but Java EE 5 (which explains why CDI doesn't work as expected). To read up on how to get annotated EJBs work from JSF managed beans, see http://buttso.blogspot.de/2011/03/jsf-with-managed-beans-and-dependency.html.
The upcoming 12c release will solve all of this. My suggestion therefore is to keep on going with the web.xml reference and then replace it later with @EJB annotation references
Frank