Why is Glassfish 3.1.1 unable to create my Stateless Session Bean? - glassfish

Question

Glassfish 3.1.1 (build 12)
Application deployed as a WAR using JAX-RS, EJB3, JPA
There are no deployment errors in the logs. This is a very clean glassfish 3.1.1 install, with only this application deployed. This application works in Glassfish 3.0.1 I am getting the following exception when web service method is invoked.
EJB5070: Exception creating stateless session bean : [VehicleManagementService]|#]
Here is some info from the logs during deployment regarding the creation of the EJBs:
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:26.928-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb.com.sun.ejb.containers|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Portable JNDI names for EJB VehicleAliases : [java:global/vehicle/VehicleAliases!com.realcomp.vehicle.ejb.VehicleAliases, java:global/vehicle/VehicleAliases]|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:26.937-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb.com.sun.ejb.containers|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Portable JNDI names for EJB VehicleManagementService : [java:global/vehicle/VehicleManagementService!com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.VehicleManagementService, java:global/vehicle/VehicleManagementService]|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:27.002-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb.com.sun.ejb.containers|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Portable JNDI names for EJB VehicleManagementBean : [java:global/vehicle/VehicleManagementBean!com.realcomp.vehicle.ejb.VehicleManagementBean, java:global/vehicle/VehicleManagementBean!com.realcomp.vehicle.ejb.VehicleManagement]|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:27.003-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb.com.sun.ejb.containers|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Glassfish-specific (Non-portable) JNDI names for EJB VehicleManagementBean : [com.realcomp.vehicle.ejb.VehicleManagement, com.realcomp.vehicle.ejb.VehicleManagement#com.realcomp.vehicle.ejb.VehicleManagement]|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:27.218-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.DefaultTraversableResolver|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Instantiated an instance of org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver.|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:27.602-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.config|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Initializing Mojarra 2.1.3 (FCS b02) for context '/vehicle'|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:27.660-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.DefaultTraversableResolver|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Instantiated an instance of org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver.|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:27.771-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|com.sun.jersey.api.core.WebAppResourceConfig|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Scanning for root resource and provider classes in the Web app resource paths:
/WEB-INF/lib
/WEB-INF/classes|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:28.072-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|com.sun.jersey.api.core.ScanningResourceConfig|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Root resource classes found:
class com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.VehicleManagementService|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:28.073-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|com.sun.jersey.api.core.ScanningResourceConfig|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Provider classes found:
class org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JsonMappingExceptionMapper
class com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.NoResultMapper
class com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.EntityNotFoundMapper
class org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider
class com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.NonUniqueResultMapper
class org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider
class org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JsonParseExceptionMapper|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:28.078-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|com.sun.jersey.server.impl.cdi.CDIComponentProviderFactoryInitializer|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|CDI support is enabled|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:28.079-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.8 06/24/2011 12:17 PM'|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:28.172-0500|INFO|glassfish3.1.1|com.sun.jersey.server.impl.ejb.EJBComponentProviderFactory|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Binding the EJB class com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.VehicleManagementService to EJBManagedComponentProvider|#]
Here is some of the VehicleManagementService:
#Stateless
#LocalBean
#Path("/")
#DeclareRoles({"production"})
public class VehicleManagementService implements Serializable{
private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(VehicleManagementService.class.getName());
#Context
private UriInfo uriInfo;
#EJB
private VehicleManagementBean vehicles;
#EJB
private VehicleAliases aliases;
...
Here is full stack trace:
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:33.537-0500|SEVERE|glassfish3.1.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb.com.sun.ejb.containers|_ThreadID=27;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|EJB5070: Exception creating stateless session bean : [VehicleManagementService]|#]
[#|2011-08-26T11:03:33.538-0500|WARNING|glassfish3.1.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb.com.sun.ejb.containers|_ThreadID=27;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|A system exception occurred during an invocation on EJB VehicleManagementService method public javax.ws.rs.core.Response com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.VehicleManagementService.getVehicle(java.lang.String)
javax.ejb.EJBException: javax.ejb.EJBException: javax.ejb.CreateException: Could not create stateless EJB
at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatelessSessionContainer._getContext(StatelessSessionContainer.java:454)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.getContext(BaseContainer.java:2528)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.preInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1895)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.java:212)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.java:88)
at $Proxy307.getVehicle(Unknown Source)
at com.realcomp.vehicle.web.service.__EJB31_Generated__VehicleManagementService__Intf____Bean__.getVehicle(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.JavaMethodInvokerFactory$1.invoke(JavaMethodInvokerFactory.java:60)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.model.method.dispatch.AbstractResourceMethodDispatchProvider$ResponseOutInvoker._dispatch(AbstractResourceMethodDispatchProvider.java:205)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.model.method.dispatch.ResourceJavaMethodDispatcher.dispatch(ResourceJavaMethodDispatcher.java:75)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.uri.rules.HttpMethodRule.accept(HttpMethodRule.java:288)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.uri.rules.RightHandPathRule.accept(RightHandPathRule.java:147)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.uri.rules.ResourceClassRule.accept(ResourceClassRule.java:108)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.uri.rules.RightHandPathRule.accept(RightHandPathRule.java:147)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.uri.rules.RootResourceClassesRule.accept(RootResourceClassesRule.java:84)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1469)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1400)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1349)
at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1339)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:416)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:537)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:699)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1539)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:281)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:98)
at com.sun.enterprise.web.PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.invoke(PESessionLockingStandardPipeline.java:91)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:162)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:327)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:231)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:174)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:828)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:725)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1019)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:225)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: javax.ejb.CreateException: Could not create stateless EJB
at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatelessSessionContainer$SessionContextFactory.create(StatelessSessionContainer.java:726)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.util.pool.NonBlockingPool.getObject(NonBlockingPool.java:247)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatelessSessionContainer._getContext(StatelessSessionContainer.java:449)
... 53 more
Caused by: javax.ejb.CreateException: Could not create stateless EJB
at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatelessSessionContainer.createStatelessEJB(StatelessSessionContainer.java:534)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatelessSessionContainer.access$000(StatelessSessionContainer.java:95)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatelessSessionContainer$SessionContextFactory.create(StatelessSessionContainer.java:724)
... 55 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.get(ConcurrentHashMap.java:796)
at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.getBean(BeanManagerImpl.java:1209)
at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.getBean(BeanManagerImpl.java:144)
at org.glassfish.weld.services.JCDIServiceImpl._createJCDIInjectionContext(JCDIServiceImpl.java:169)
at org.glassfish.weld.services.JCDIServiceImpl.createJCDIInjectionContext(JCDIServiceImpl.java:146)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.createEjbInstanceAndContext(BaseContainer.java:1636)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.StatelessSessionContainer.createStatelessEJB(StatelessSessionContainer.java:475)
... 57 more
And here is getVehicle()
#GET
#Path("vin/{vin}")
#Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
#RolesAllowed("production")
public Response getVehicle(#PathParam("vin") String vin) {
Vehicle vehicle = vehicles.find(vin);
Response response = null;
if (vehicle == null)
response = Response.status(Status.NOT_FOUND).build();
else
response = Response.ok(vehicle).build();
return response;
}

Answer 1

The following changes fixed my problem. Unfortunately, I have changed too many things trying to fix this to be able to point to any one item.
I repackaged the application from WAR to EAR.
I changed the configuration of jersey from using the com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer configuration in web.xml to a proper class that extends Application.
#ApplicationPath("/")
public class VehicleService extends Application {
#Override
public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
Set<Class<?>> retVal = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
retVal.add(VehicleResource.class);
retVal.add(EntityNotFoundMapper.class);
retVal.add(NoResultMapper.class);
retVal.add(NonUniqueResultMapper.class);
return retVal;
}
#Override
public Set<Object> getSingletons() {
Set<Object> singletons = new HashSet<Object>();
singletons.add(new org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider());
return singletons;
}
Thanks to JamesBoyZ for the link to EJB 3.1 in war package in WEB-INF/classes - javax.ejb.CreateException: Could not create stateless EJB that got me going in the right direction.

Answer 2

In the 2nd line of the stack trace, I saw:
A system exception occurred during an invocation on EJB VehicleManagementService getVehicle(java.lang.String)
It seems there is a problem with your getVehicle method?

Answer 3

Double-check that there's a(n empty) beans.xml in your bundled project.