Problem when calling session bean from main.

Question

Hi everyone
I get the following error when calling a session bean from main(String args[]).
Sep 3, 2008 9:11:13 AM com.sun.enterprise.appclient.MainWithModuleSupport <init>
WARNING: ACC003: Application threw an exception.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at databasetest.Main.main(Main.java:26)
Here is my code beneath.
I'm using netbeans and glassfish application server.
Everything is in the same project, called DatabaseTest, I also have deployed the application before running the client.
I'm running the client as follows, right click on the DatabaseTest-app-client and select run.
The client:
package databasetest;
import com.test.UsersFacadeRemote;
import javax.ejb.EJB;
import com.test.Users;
public class Main {
    @EJB
    private static UsersFacadeRemote usersFacade;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Users users = new Users(12, 34);
        usersFacade.create(users);
}The remote facade I'm calling:
package com.test;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.Remote;
@Remote
public interface UsersFacadeRemote {
    void create(Users users);
    void edit(Users users);
    void remove(Users users);
    Users find(Object id);
    List<Users> findAll();
}The stateless bean:
package com.test;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
@Stateless
public class UsersFacade implements UsersFacadeRemote {
    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager em;
    public void create(Users users) {
        em.persist(users);
    public void edit(Users users) {
        em.merge(users);
    public void remove(Users users) {
        em.remove(em.merge(users));
    public Users find(Object id) {
        return em.find(com.test.Users.class, id);
    public List<Users> findAll() {
        return em.createQuery("select object(o) from Users as o").getResultList();
}

Answer 1

looks like you're banging your head against the same brick wall as [I have done|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=13&threadID=5317110] and [others have in the past|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=136&threadID=5259913] if that's any consolation.
Funny thing is, mine did actually work in the debugger but not when running!
Strange thing that.
I did initially interest someone from the developers but they couldn't really help, ended up saying : try instantiating your beans the EJB 2.1 way and see where that gets you. Yes that works but they promised us "hey no more dopey xml deployment descriptors just some cool annotations" didn't they?
I've got the feeling were' missing something really obvious!
Edited by: sebthebike on 03-Sep-2008 12:21