simple Entity create() fails

Hello,
I have a very simple Entity bean which runs fine on openejb 0.9.2 but  
fails on geronimo (co lately.)
(Code -- very simple -- at the end of this mail).
I made it BMP (removing all database-related stuff) to simplify things and  
try to isolate the problem.

---This is the ejb-jar, very simple:
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<ejb-jar
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/ejb-jar_2_1.xsd";
    version="2.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee";>

<description>sample Application</description>
     <display-name>EJB</display-name>
     <enterprise-beans>
    <entity>
      <ejb-name>Employee</ejb-name>
      <home>acm.EmployeeHome</home>
      <remote>acm.Employee</remote>
     <ejb-class>acm.EmployeeBean</ejb-class>
      <persistence-type>Bean</persistence-type>
      <prim-key-class>java.lang.Integer</prim-key-class>
      <reentrant>false</reentrant>
</entity>
</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

--- and the openejb-jar.xml (not needed I think) :
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<openejb-jar xmlns="http://www.openejb.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar";
    configId="org/openejb/itests"
    parentId="org/apache/geronimo/Server"
        xmlns:naming="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming";
>
<enterprise-beans>
    <entity>
       <ejb-name>Employee</ejb-name>
       <jndi-name>Employee</jndi-name>
    </entity>
</enterprise-beans>
</openejb-jar>

The bean is called by a servlet in its doPost() (the bean is declared in  
web-xml and geronimo-web.xm) :
...
                try {
                 Object ref3  = 
jndiContext.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/Employee");
	        eh= (EmployeeHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(ref3,  
EmployeeHome.class);
              } catch(Exception e) {
                 throw new ServletException("Failed to lookup employee", e);
              }

                Employee employee = null;
                try {
                        employee = eh.create("jack", "a", "ja@xxxxx");
		} catch (Exception e) { throw new ServletException("create() failed",  
e); } // <-- THROWN !!!

		if (employee != null) out.println("first name is: "  
+ employee.getFirstname() + "<br>");
                //employee.remove();
      }
...

The Home is found but it cannot create() the remote interface, as
the marked exception is thrown and following stack produced:



10:16:10,380 WARN  [SystemExceptionInterceptor] Employee
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.transaction.DoubleKeyedHashMap$Key.hashCode(DoubleKeyedHashMap.java:66)
        at java.util.HashMap.hash(HashMap.java:261)
        at java.util.HashMap.put(HashMap.java:379)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.transaction.DoubleKeyedHashMap.put(DoubleKeyedHashMap.java:33)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.transaction.context.AbstractTransactionContext.associate(AbstractTransactionContext.java:46)
        at  
org.openejb.entity.bmp.BMPCreateMethod.execute(BMPCreateMethod.java:138)
        at  
org.openejb.dispatch.DispatchInterceptor.invoke(DispatchInterceptor.java:72)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.naming.java.ComponentContextInterceptor.invoke(ComponentContextInterceptor.java:56)
        at  
org.openejb.ConnectionTrackingInterceptor.invoke(ConnectionTrackingInterceptor.java:81)
        at  
org.openejb.entity.EntityInstanceInterceptor.invoke(EntityInstanceInterceptor.java:136)
        at  
org.openejb.transaction.ContainerPolicy$TxRequired.invoke(ContainerPolicy.java:140)
        at  
org.openejb.transaction.TransactionContextInterceptor.invoke(TransactionContextInterceptor.java:80)
        at  
org.openejb.SystemExceptionInterceptor.invoke(SystemExceptionInterceptor.java:82)
        at  
org.openejb.GenericEJBContainer.invoke(GenericEJBContainer.java:234)
        at  
org.openejb.proxy.EJBMethodInterceptor.intercept(EJBMethodInterceptor.java:129)
        at  
org.openejb.proxy.EntityEJBHome$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$e5e300df.create(<generated>)
        at  
org.jboss.docs.interest.InterestServlet.doPost(InterestServlet.java:132)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:615)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:688)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:427)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.jetty.JettyServletHolder.handle(JettyServletHolder.java:92)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:832)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.JSR154Filter.doFilter(JSR154Filter.java:171)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:823)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:473)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:567)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1565)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:623)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1517)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:954)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:814)
        at  
org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:981)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:831)
        at  
org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244)
        at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357)
        at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)
javax.servlet.ServletException: create() failed
        at  
org.jboss.docs.interest.InterestServlet.doPost(InterestServlet.java:133)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:615)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:688)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:427)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.jetty.JettyServletHolder.handle(JettyServletHolder.java:92)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:832)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.JSR154Filter.doFilter(JSR154Filter.java:171)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:823)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:473)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:567)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1565)
        at  
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:623)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1517)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:954)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:814)
        at  
org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:981)
        at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:831)
        at  
org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244)
        at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357)


I tried to make all this so simple as possible but cannot have it running.
Any idea?

Sam



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code (very simple example from somewhere) :


---remote:---
package acm;

import javax.ejb.EJBObject;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

public interface Employee extends EJBObject
{
  public void says( String message )
    throws RemoteException;

        public void setAge(int age) throws RemoteException;
        public String getFirstname() throws RemoteException;

        public void add(int i) throws RemoteException;
        public int getTotal() throws RemoteException;
}
---bean:---
package acm;

import javax.ejb.*;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

public class EmployeeBean implements EntityBean
{
  public int id;
  public String firstname;
  public String lastname;
  public String email;
 public int age;
        public int total;

        public int getId() { return id; }
        public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; }

        public String getFirstname() { return firstname; }
        public void setFirstname(String a) { firstname = a; }

        public String getLastname() { return lastname; }
        public void setLastname(String a) { lastname = a; }

        public String getEmail() { return email; }
        public void setEmail(String a) { email = a; }

        public int getAge() { return age; }
        public void setAge(int age) { this.age = age; }

        public int getTotal() { return total; }
        public void setTotal(int i) { total = i; }

  public EntityContext context;

  public EmployeeBean()
  {
  }

  public Integer ejbCreate( String firstname, String lastname, String  
email )
    throws CreateException
  {
    this.firstname = firstname;
    this.lastname = lastname;
    this.email = email;
    return null;
  }
  public void ejbPostCreate( String firstname, String lastname, String  
email )
    throws CreateException
  {
  }


  public Integer ejbCreate( String firstname, String lastname, String  
email, int age )
    throws CreateException
  {
    this.firstname = firstname;
    this.lastname = lastname;
    this.email = email;
        this.age = age;
    return null;
  }
  public void ejbPostCreate( String firstname, String lastname, String  
email, int age )
    throws CreateException
  {
  }



  public void says( String message )
  {
    System.out.println( "[" + firstname + " " + lastname +
          "(" + id + ") " + email + "] " + message );
  }

        public void add(int i) {
                total += i;
        }

  public void setEntityContext( EntityContext context )
    throws EJBException, RemoteException
  {
    this.context = context;
  }

  public void unsetEntityContext()
    throws EJBException, RemoteException
  {
  }

  public void ejbActivate()
    throws EJBException, RemoteException
  {
  }

  public void ejbLoad()
    throws EJBException, RemoteException
  {
  }

  public void ejbPassivate()
    throws EJBException, RemoteException
  {
  }

  public void ejbRemove()
    throws RemoveException, EJBException, RemoteException
  {
  }

  public void ejbStore()
    throws EJBException, RemoteException
  {
  }
}
---home:---
package acm;

import javax.ejb.CreateException;
import javax.ejb.EJBHome;
import javax.ejb.FinderException;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

public interface EmployeeHome extends EJBHome
{
  public Employee create( String firstname, String lastname, String email )
    throws RemoteException, CreateException;

  public Employee create( String firstname, String lastname, String email,  
int age )
    throws RemoteException, CreateException;

  public Employee findByPrimaryKey( Integer id )
    throws RemoteException, FinderException;
}