Inject an EJB into JAX-RS (RESTful service)

Question

I'm trying to inject a Stateless EJB into my JAX-RS webservice via annotations. Unfortunately the EJB is just null and I get a NullPointerException when I try to use it.

@Path("book")
public class BookResource {

    @EJB
    private BookEJB bookEJB;

    public BookResource() {
    }

    @GET
    @Produces("application/xml")
    @Path("/{bookId}")
    public Book getBookById(@PathParam("bookId") Integer id)
    {
        return bookEJB.findById(id);
    }
}

What am I doing wrong?

Here is some information about my machine:

• Glassfish 3.1
• Netbeans 6.9 RC 2
• Java EE 6

Can you guys show some working example?

Answer 1

I am not sure this is supposed to work. So either:

Option 1: Use the injection provider SPI

Implement a provider that will do the lookup and inject the EJB. See:

• @EJB injection.

Example for com.sun.jersey:jersey-server:1.17 :

import com.sun.jersey.core.spi.component.ComponentContext;
import com.sun.jersey.core.spi.component.ComponentScope;
import com.sun.jersey.spi.inject.Injectable;
import com.sun.jersey.spi.inject.InjectableProvider;

import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;

/**
 * JAX-RS EJB Injection provider.
 */
@Provider
public class EJBProvider implements InjectableProvider<EJB, Type> {

    public ComponentScope getScope() {
        return ComponentScope.Singleton;
    }

    public Injectable getInjectable(ComponentContext cc, EJB ejb, Type t) {
        if (!(t instanceof Class)) return null;

        try {
            Class c = (Class)t;
            Context ic = new InitialContext();

            final Object o = ic.lookup(c.getName());

            return new Injectable<Object>() {
                public Object getValue() {
                    return o;
                }
            };
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }
}

Option 2: Make the BookResource an EJB

@Stateless
@Path("book")
public class BookResource {

    @EJB
    private BookEJB bookEJB;

    //...
}

See:

• How to Combine REST Services with EJB 3.1
• EJB 3.1 And REST - The Lightweight Hybrid

Option 3: Use CDI

@Path("book")
@RequestScoped
public class BookResource {

    @Inject
    private BookEJB bookEJB;

    //...
}

See:

• Injecting an EJB from a jar into a jax-rs class in a war