Problem deploying EJB entity bean

Question

Hi all!
I'm trying to deploy an CMP entity bean with composite primary key.
My environment is Oracle 8i (8.1.7) on W2K Professional and I'm using JDK 1.3.1_02.
The error I get is:
Compiling Stubs...done
Generating Jar File...done
Loading EJB Jar file and Comm Stubs Jar file...done
Generating EJBHome and EJBObject on the server...
An exception occurred during code generation: null
I don't understand what am I doing wrong...
Any help will be highly appreciated.
[Could anyone point me out sample code for CMP entity beans with composite primary key?]
Apologies for the length of the POST, just trying to pass as much info as I can...
The table is the following:
CREATE TABLE GPS_HIST (
gps_date_of_fix     VARCHAR2(40) NOT NULL,
gps_time_of_fix     VARCHAR2(40) NOT NULL,
issi               NUMBER(10) NOT NULL,
gps_condition          NUMBER(5),
gps_latitude          VARCHAR2(40),
gps_longitude          VARCHAR2(40),
gps_speed_knt          NUMBER(10),
constraint gps_hist_pk primary key (gps_date_of_fix, gps_time_of_fix, issi))
TABLESPACE AVLDATA
PCTFREE 10     PCTUSED 40
INITRANS 1     MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE (
INITIAL 128K NEXT 128K PCTINCREASE 0
MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 4096)
NOCACHE;
The primary key class is the following:
package gps;
public class GPSEntryPK implements java.io.Serializable
     public int ISSI;
     public String gpsTimeOfFix;
     public String gpsDateOfFix;
     public GPSEntryPK() {}
     public GPSEntryPK (String gpsDateOfFix, String gpsTimeOfFix, int ISSI)
          this.gpsDateOfFix = gpsDateOfFix;
          this.gpsTimeOfFix = gpsTimeOfFix;
          this.ISSI = ISSI;
     public String getGPSDateOfFix()
          return this.gpsDateOfFix;
     public String getGPSTimeOfFix()
          return this.gpsTimeOfFix;
     public int getISSI()
          return this.ISSI;
     public boolean equals(Object obj) {
          if ((obj instanceof GPSEntryPK) &&
               (this.ISSI == ((GPSEntryPK)obj).ISSI) &&
               (this.gpsTimeOfFix.equals(((GPSEntryPK)obj).gpsTimeOfFix)) &&
               (this.gpsDateOfFix.equals(((GPSEntryPK)obj).gpsDateOfFix)))
               return true;
          return false;
     public int hashCode() {
          return (this.gpsTimeOfFix.concat(this.gpsDateOfFix)).hashCode() * this.ISSI;
The bean implemantation (part of it) is as follows:
public void setEntityContext(EntityContext ctx)
this.ctx = ctx;
Properties props = ctx.getEnvironment();
public void unsetEntityContext()
this.ctx = null;
public GPSEntryPK ejbCreate(String gpsDateOfFix, String gpsTimeOfFix, int ISSI, int gpsCondition,
String gpsLatitude, String gpsLongitude, double gpsSpeedKnt)
throws CreateException, RemoteException
try {
setGPSDateOfFix(gpsDateOfFix);
setGPSTimeOfFix(gpsTimeOfFix);
setISSI(ISSI);
setGPSCondition(gpsCondition);
setGPSLatitude(gpsLatitude);
setGPSLongitude(gpsLongitude);
setGPSSpeedKnt(gpsSpeedKnt);
} catch (java.rmi.RemoteException e) {
throw new CreateException();
return null;
public GPSEntryPK ejbFindByPrimaryKey(GPSEntryPK pk) throws RemoteException, FinderException {
return null;
public void ejbPostCreate(String gpsDateOfFix, String gpsTimeOfFix, int ISSI, int gpsCondition,
String gpsLatitude, String gpsLongitude, double gpsSpeedKnt)
     throws CreateException
// get primarykey
GPSEntryPK pk = (GPSEntryPK)ctx.getPrimaryKey();
public void ejbActivate() {}
public void ejbPassivate() {}
public void ejbRemove() {}
public void ejbLoad()
// You can get to the primary key
GPSEntryPK pk = (GPSEntryPK)ctx.getPrimaryKey();
public void ejbStore(){}
The descriptors are the following:
"gpsentry.xml"
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1//EN" "ejb-jar.dtd">
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<entity>
<description>no description</description>
<ejb-name>GPSEntry</ejb-name>
<home>gps.GPSEntryHome</home>
<remote>gps.GPSEntry</remote>
<ejb-class>gpsServer.GPSEntryBean</ejb-class>
<persistence-type>Container</persistence-type>
<prim-key-class>gps.GPSEntryPK</prim-key-class>
<reentrant>False</reentrant>
<cmp-field><field-name>gpsDateOfFix</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>gpsTimeOfFix</field-name></cmp-field>
<cmp-field><field-name>ISSI</field-name></cmp-field>
<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>realmName</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>gps.realm</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>
<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>GPSEntryBean.databaseURL</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>jdbc:oracle:kprb:</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>
<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>GPSEntryBean.JDBCDriverName</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>
</entity>
</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>
"oracle_gpsentry.xml"
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE oracle-descriptor PUBLIC "-//Oracle Corporation.//DTD Oracle 1.1//EN" "oracle-ejb-jar.dtd">
<oracle-descriptor>
<mappings>
<ejb-mapping>
<ejb-name>GPSEntry</ejb-name>
<jndi-name>test/gpsentry</jndi-name>
</ejb-mapping>
</mappings>
<persistence-provider>
<description> specifies a type of persistence manager </description>
<persistence-name>psi-ri</persistence-name>
<persistence-deployer>oracle.aurora.ejb.persistence.ocmp.OcmpEntityDeployer</persistence-deployer>
</persistence-provider>
<persistence-descriptor>
<description> This specifies a particular type of persistence manager to be used for a bean. param is where you would put bean specific persistence info in the format of params. The deployment process just passes what's in the param to the persistence deployer. For the baby persistence, we do parse the persistence-mapping but for other persistence backend we don't do anything with the params </description>
<ejb-name>customerbean</ejb-name>
<persistence-name>psi-ri</persistence-name>
<psi-ri>
<schema>AVLMIS</schema>
<table>gps_hist</table>
<attr-mapping>
<field-name>gpsDateOfFix</field-name>
<column-name>gps_date_of_fix</column-name>
</attr-mapping>
<attr-mapping>
<field-name>gpsTimeOfFix</field-name>
<column-name>gps_time_of_fix</column-name>
</attr-mapping>
<attr-mapping>
<field-name>ISSI</field-name>
<column-name>issi</column-name>
</attr-mapping>
<attr-mapping>
<field-name>gpsCondition</field-name>
<column-name>gps_condition</column-name>
</attr-mapping>
<attr-mapping>
<field-name>gpsLatitude</field-name>
<column-name>gps_latitude</column-name>
</attr-mapping>
<attr-mapping>
<field-name>gpsLongitude</field-name>
<column-name>gps_longitude</column-name>
</attr-mapping>
<attr-mapping>
<field-name>gpsSpeedKnt</field-name>
<column-name>gps_speed_knt</column-name>
</attr-mapping>
</psi-ri>
</persistence-descriptor>
</oracle-descriptor>
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Nikos,
I obviously don't know what your entire situation is, but you may not
be aware that Oracle's DBMS embedded EJB container does not work well,
and as a result, Oracle decided to replace it with an external EJB
container which is part of a product called "Oracle Containers for
J2EE" (otherwise known as "OC4J"). The "other" forum (the J2EE forum)
deals mainly with OC4J.
As far as I know, Oracle recommends doing your EJB related work with
OC4J and not with the embedded EJB container.
Good Luck,
Avi. That's correct
Java code, implementing data bound logic, can still run in the database as Java stored procedures/packages/functions/triggers
while J2EE componentsdeployed in middle-tier implement business logic. Java in database enable the database to be an active participant to your deployment platform
in 9iDB R2 you will even be able to call-out Web client (using HTTP Client), EJB client (using oc4jclient.jar) or Web Service client
(using SOAP libraries)
Kuassi