[jboss-user] [Beginners Corner] - trouble obtaining EJB reference in portlet

I'm having trouble obtaining a reference to an EJB entity bean in a portlet. The entity bean has successfully deployed and I've confirmed the JNDI name in the jmx-console (PersonBean). I had first tried to obtain the reference through the EJB annotation, injecting it into the portlet as such: | public class ModifyPerson extends GenericPortlet { | @EJB(name="PersonBean") | private PersonLocal bean; | . | . | . | } | (PersonLocal is the local interface) However, this did not appear to work as I got a NullPointerException when I tried to call any of its methods. When that faied, I tried to do a JNDI lookup in the init() method: | public void inti() throws PortletException{ | try{ | InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); | bean = (PersonLocal) ctx.lookup("java:/env/comp/PersonBean"); | }catch(NamingException ex){ | throw new PortletException(ex.getMessage()); | } | } | The portlet instance did not appear to have thrown any exceptions when initializing, which I had thought was promising, but when I try to call any of the bean's methods, I still get the NullPointerException. I am assuming this NullPointerException is the result of bean remaining as a null value as an actual reference to the bean is not obtained. Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3964871#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...