Error in create method on Home Interface!

Probably the "dhome" variable is null. Are you getting any other exceptions?

>  Object o = ctx.lookup("demo.DemoHome");

This lookup looks weird, you need to look for the EJB reference using the standard syntax:

java:comp/demo/DemoHome

Lookup the bean using it's deployment id

have a look at
ejb-jar.xml

<ejb-name>Demo</ejb-name>

The ejb-jar is like this:

<ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <session>
      <ejb-name>demo.DemoHome</ejb-name>
      <home>ejb.demo.DemoHome</home>
      <remote>ejb.demo.Demo</remote>
      <ejb-class>ejb.demo.DemoBean</ejb-class>
      <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
      <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
    </session>
  </enterprise-beans>

To add more about this question, I am getting these error when calling a method on "demo" object. I tried to print the objects and got these results:

DemoHome dhome = (DemoHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(o, DemoHome.class);
System.out.println("===========here1111==========" + dhome);//it is printing Demo.jar#demo.DemoHome

Demo demo = dhome.create();
System.out.println("===========here2222==========" + demo);// it is also printing Demo.jar#demo.DemoHome

// Here is the call that executes the method on the // server side object System.out.println("The result is " + demo.demoSelect());// here getting all those errors...

> <ejb-name>demo.DemoHome</ejb-name>

Try to change it to:

<ejb-name>DemoHome</ejb-name>

and access it like:

Object o = ctx.lookup("java:comp/DemoHome");

and tell us if this helps.

>> Demo demo = dhome.create();//getting error here

Shouldn't you be casting it too? Demo demo = ( Demo ) dhome.create () ;

Anyway, I don't think that dhome is null because the message says:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at jrunx.cluster.ClusterAlgorithm.invokeService(ClusterAlgorithm.java:127)

> Shouldn't you be casting it too? Demo demo = ( Demo ) dhome.create () ;

It shouldn't, the create method returns an object of the home type anyway.

Hi girionis,
   I changed the ejb-name as DemoHome but the error is same.

>> It shouldn't, the create method returns an object of the home type anyway.

Yeah, you're right. Its been more than a year since I touched J2EE and have forgotten lots :-( unfortunately, this .NET thing that I'm being forced to work on doesn't suit me as I'd expected.

Prateek, can you post your updated XML?

I had something similar to this which worked:

<ejb-jar id="ejb-jar_ID">
      <display-name>wfejb</display-name>
      <enterprise-beans>
            <session id="FileMatchService">
                  <ejb-name>FileMatchService</ejb-name>
                  <home>com.citigroup.wfl.id.ejb.filematchservice.FileMatchServiceHome</home>
                  <remote>com.citigroup.wfl.id.ejb.filematchservice.FileMatchService</remote>
                  <ejb-class>com.citigroup.wfl.id.ejb.filematchservice.FileMatchServiceBean</ejb-class>
                  <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
                  <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
            </session>
      </enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

FileMatchServiceHome objFileMatchServiceHome = ( FileMatchServiceHome ) ctx.lookup ( sJNDIName ) ;
FileMatchService objFileMatchService = ( FileMatchService ) objFileMatchServiceHome.create () ;

What is the "sJNDIName"'s value? Maybe it will give us some clues as to what is going wrong.

Well, it was "WFInd.FileMatchService".

ejb-jar-bnd.xmi:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI" xmlns:ejbbnd="ejbbnd.xmi" xmlns:ejb="ejb.xmi" xmi:id="EJBJarBinding_1059548815063">
      <ejbJar href="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml#ejb-jar_ID"/>
      <ejbBindings xmi:id="EnterpriseBeanBinding_1059548815063" jndiName="WFInd.FileMatchService">
      <enterpriseBean xmi:type="ejb:Session" href="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml#RemoteInterface"/>
      </ejbBindings>
</ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding>

Hi,
   Finaly I am able to run this small EJB code..:) I don't know what exactly was wrong but I used this DD finally:

<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd'>

<ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <session>
      <ejb-name>DemoHome</ejb-name>
      <home>ejb.demo.DemoHome</home>
      <remote>ejb.demo.Demo</remote>
      <ejb-class>ejb.demo.DemoBean</ejb-class>
      <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
      <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
    </session>
  </enterprise-beans>

  <assembly-descriptor>
    <container-transaction>
      <method>
        <ejb-name>DemoHome</ejb-name>
        <method-intf>Remote</method-intf>
        <method-name>*</method-name>
      </method>
      <trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
    </container-transaction>
  </assembly-descriptor>

</ejb-jar>

Also I changed setSessionContext method from :
public void setSessionContext(SessionContext ctx) {    
    if (verbose)
      System.out.println("setSessionContext called");
    this.ctx = ctx;
    props = ctx.getEnvironment();
  }
 
To:
public void setSessionContext(javax.ejb.SessionContext ctx) {
    this.ctx = ctx;
  }


Thanks to all.

:)