[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBAS-9198) Cannot store reference to a stateful session bean in the HTTP session

Cannot store reference to a stateful session bean in the HTTP session --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBAS-9198 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-9198 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Web (Tomcat) service Affects Versions: 7.0.0.Beta1 Reporter: Andrig Miller Assignee: Remy Maucherat Fix For: 7.0.0.Beta2 I have ported an application from AS 5/EAP 5.1 to AS 7 (a snapshot of Beta 2 actually), and in that application I am looking up a reference to a stateful session bean, to store it in the HTTP session, and the actual storage of the reference, gets the following: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setAttribute: Non-serializable attribute sfsbOrderInquiry services.web.OrderInquiryServlet.doGet(OrderInquiryServlet.java:78) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:734) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847) root cause java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setAttribute: Non-serializable attribute sfsbOrderInquiry org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.setAttribute(StandardSession.java:1289) org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.setAttribute(StandardSession.java:1250) org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade.setAttribute(StandardSessionFacade.java:130) services.web.OrderInquiryServlet.doGet(OrderInquiryServlet.java:74) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:734) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847) It's saying that my attribute is not serializable, but the OrderInquiryBean in the lookup implements Serializable. The code in the servlet is as such, and it fails on the session.setAttribute("sfsbOrderInquiry", orderInquiry): HttpSession session = request.getSession(); OrderInquiry orderInquiry = (OrderInquiry) session.getAttribute("sfsbOrderInquiry"); if (orderInquiry == null) { InitialContext context = null; try { context = new InitialContext(); orderInquiry = (OrderInquiry) context.lookup("java:app/OrderManagerEJB/OrderInquiryBean!services.ejb.OrderInquiry"); session.setAttribute("sfsbOrderInquiry", orderInquiry); } catch(Exception lookupError) { logger.log(Level.ERROR, lookupError.getStackTrace().toString()); response.setStatus(500); throw new ServletException(lookupError); } } The top of OrderInquireBean looks like: @Stateful public class OrderInquiryBean implements OrderInquiry, Serializable { /** The serialVersionUID */ private static final long serialVersionUID = -9113338082170911949L