i have problems while injection my beans with the @EJB annotation - the beans are always null...
First, here is the relevant part of my projectstructure.
ApplEAR.ear
|
├──WebModule.war (de.example.rest)
└──EJBModule.war (de.example.service)
So... now i am trying to inject a bean from the ejbmodule in my webmodule:
de.example.rest.RestBean:
@Stateless(name = "RestBean")
@Path("/restElements")
public class RestBean implements IRestBean {
@EJB
private UserBean userBean;
de.example.service.UserBean:
@Stateless(name = "UserBean")
@TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.BEAN)
@LocalBean
public class UserBean{...
And in my WebModule i have this class to extend the Application-class:
@ApplicationPath("/*")
public class RestApplication extends javax.ws.rs.core.Application {
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
@Override
public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
classes.add(de.example.rest.RestBean.class);
return classes;
}
}
The ear is deployed on a websphere liberty server with these installed features:
<feature>localConnector-1.0</feature>
<feature>appSecurity-3.0</feature>
<feature>beanValidation-2.0</feature>
<feature>ejbLite-3.2</feature>
<feature>ejbRemote-3.2</feature>
<feature>javaMail-1.6</feature>
<feature>jca-1.7</feature>
<feature>jdbc-4.2</feature>
<feature>jndi-1.0</feature>
<feature>jpaContainer-2.2</feature>
<feature>jsf-2.3</feature>
<feature>jsp-2.3</feature>
<feature>ldapRegistry-3.0</feature>
<feature>servlet-4.0</feature>
<feature>transportSecurity-1.0</feature>
<feature>websocket-1.1</feature>
<feature>jaxws-2.2</feature>
<feature>jaxrs-2.1</feature>
I tried different things to solve my problem: Creating a beans.xml in every WEB-INF/META-INF folder, trying with @LocalBean and with an @Local-interface - and injecting the interface, using @EJB(lookup = "java:global/ApplEAR/EJBModule/UserBean!de.example.service.UserBean"), using @Inject instead.
With the help of
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
Object service = ctx.lookup(java:global/ApplEAR/EJBModule/UserBean!de.example.service.UserBean);
I can lookup the bean, but it would be easier by using annotations.
So what am i missing or doing wrong?
I'm going to give an answer without an explanation (since I couldn't describe all the nuances of EJB vs CDI injection in JAX-RS, the specifications, etc.).
You can get UserBean injected into RestBean by removing the EJB annotation from RestBean and adding @Dependent
to convert it to a CDI-managed bean.
// ...
import javax.enterprise.context.Dependent;
//@Stateless(name = "RestBean")
@Path("/restElements")
@Dependent
public class RestBean implements IRestBean {
This assumes you don't need to use RestBean, say, as a remote EJB, and are OK with only using it as a CDI-managed bean and/or JAX-RS resource.
(Note: This assumes you have a CDI feature enabled, which you do, transitively/indirectly).