Question

I’m developing EAR application using EJB, JPA and Vaadin for web interface. The application server – GlassFish 3.1.1.

File DofApplicationServlet.java

package test.servlet;

import com.vaadin.Application;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet;
import test.ejb.TestBean;

import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceUnit;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

public class DofApplicationServlet extends AbstractApplicationServlet {
    @EJB
    private TestBean testBean;

    @PersistenceUnit(name="mainPU")
    private EntityManagerFactory emf;

    @Override
    protected Application getNewApplication(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) throws ServletException {
        return new DofApplication(testBean, emf);
    }

    @Override
    protected Class<? extends Application> getApplicationClass() throws ClassNotFoundException {
        return DofApplication.class;
    }
}

File DofApplication.java

package test.servlet;

import com.vaadin.Application;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button;
import com.vaadin.ui.Label;
import com.vaadin.ui.TextField;
import com.vaadin.ui.Window;
import test.ejb.TestBean;

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.Query;

public class DofApplication extends Application  {
    private TestBean testBean;
    private Label labelResult;
    private Label labelCount;
    private Label labelUser;
    private int counter;
    private EntityManagerFactory emf;

    public DofApplication(TestBean testBean, EntityManagerFactory emf) {
        this.testBean = testBean;
        this.emf = emf;
    }

    @Override
    public void init() {
        Window wnd = new Window();
        final TextField tfLogin = new TextField("login");
        wnd.addComponent(tfLogin);

        final TextField tfPass = new TextField("password");
        wnd.addComponent(tfPass);

        labelResult = new Label("result");
        wnd.addComponent(labelResult);

        labelCount = new Label("Counter");
        wnd.addComponent(labelCount);

        labelUser = new Label("Current user");
        wnd.addComponent(labelUser);

        Button btnLogin = new Button("Login");
        wnd.addComponent(btnLogin);

        Button btnSess = new Button("Session");
        wnd.addComponent(btnSess);


        btnLogin.addListener(new Button.ClickListener() {
            public void buttonClick(Button.ClickEvent clickEvent) {
                boolean auth = testBean.checkOracleConnection(tfLogin.getValue().toString(), tfPass.getValue().toString());
                if (auth) {
                    labelResult.setCaption("auth ok " + tfLogin.getValue().toString());
                    labelUser.setCaption("Current username: " + tfLogin.getValue().toString());
                }  else {
                    labelResult.setCaption("auth fail");
                    labelUser.setCaption("Current username: NONE");
                }

            }
        });

        btnSess.addListener(new Button.ClickListener() {
            public void buttonClick(Button.ClickEvent clickEvent) {
                EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager(); // <-- emf is not null here in debugger, but call always returns exception
                Query q = em.createQuery("SELECT c FROM CountryEntity c");

            }
        });


        setMainWindow(wnd);
    }


}

And exception I got in btnSess click handler:

[#|2011-09-09T17:42:51.769+0600|SEVERE|glassfish3.1.1|com.vaadin.Application|_ThreadID=20;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Terminal error:
com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod$MethodException
Cause: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to retrieve EntityManagerFactory for unitName mainPU
    at com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod.receiveEvent(ListenerMethod.java:510)
    at com.vaadin.event.EventRouter.fireEvent(EventRouter.java:164)
    at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponent.fireEvent(AbstractComponent.java:1193)
    at com.vaadin.ui.Button.fireClick(Button.java:539)
    at com.vaadin.ui.Button.changeVariables(Button.java:206)
    at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractCommunicationManager.handleVariableBurst(AbstractCommunicationManager.java:1299)
    at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractCommunicationManager.handleVariables(AbstractCommunicationManager.java:1219)
    at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractCommunicationManager.doHandleUidlRequest(AbstractCommunicationManager.java:735)
    at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.CommunicationManager.handleUidlRequest(CommunicationManager.java:296)
    at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet.service(AbstractApplicationServlet.java:501)
    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.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)
    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:662)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to retrieve EntityManagerFactory for unitName mainPU
    at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.EntityManagerFactoryWrapper.getDelegate(EntityManagerFactoryWrapper.java:100)
    at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.EntityManagerFactoryWrapper.createEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryWrapper.java:110)
    at test.servlet.DofApplication$2.buttonClick(DofApplication.java:86)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod.receiveEvent(ListenerMethod.java:490)
    ... 35 more
|#]

But, in debugger I see the following:

Ear file structure

ear.ear
-- META-INF
---- application.xml
---- persistence.xml
-- ejb.jar
-- war.war

Answer 1

I think this…

protected Application getNewApplication(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) throws ServletException {
    return new DofApplication(testBean, emf);
}

… may cause problems here. The container will inject an entity manager factory which may be different for subsequent requests. So: if you create an instance of DofApplication and pass in that emf, you might call createEntityManager() on an invalid emf.

To test this you could try to get the em like so within init():

EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("mainPU");
em = emf.createEntityManager();