Hi Donald,
I tried the new assembly of daytrader -- daytrader-web-jpa, and did not get
it work. The console log an error:
2010-01-20 14:08:24,774 ERROR [Log] Error: TradeJPADirect:createQuote --
exception creating Quote
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.geronimo.samples.daytrader.core.direct.TradeJPADirect.createQuote(TradeJPADirect.java:418)
at
org.apache.geronimo.samples.daytrader.core.TradeAction.createQuote(TradeAction.java:373)
at
org.apache.geronimo.samples.daytrader.web.TradeBuildDB.<init>(TradeBuildDB.java:196)
at
org.apache.geronimo.samples.daytrader.web.TradeConfigServlet.service(TradeConfigServlet.java:411)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at
org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.GeronimoStandardContext$SystemMethodValve.invoke(GeronimoStandardContext.java:420)
at
org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.valve.GeronimoBeforeAfterValve.invoke(GeronimoBeforeAfterValve.java:47)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:567)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:361)
at org.apache.geronimo.pool.ThreadPool$1.run(ThreadPool.java:214)
at
org.apache.geronimo.pool.ThreadPool$ContextClassLoaderRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:344)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Then I had a peek at the code, and think this NPE might be caused by
PersistenceContext not injected in TradeJPADirect. Since TradeJPADirect is
not a web container managed object(not servlet or context listener), so the
annotation @PersistenceContext does not work.
I guess daytrader-web-jpa assembly is to demo jpa usage in web module
without session EJB involvement. If we want to demo container-managed entity
manager via this assembly, we shall use @PersistenceContext on servlet or
any web container managed object, then use JNDI lookup to get the entity
manager from container. If we want to demo application-managed entity
manager, we can use @PersistenceUnit to inject an EntityManagerFactory
object in any web container managed object, then use
EntityManagerFactory.createEntityManager() to get entity manager.
Please kindly let me know your thoughts.
Thanks!
Forrest
