I have had no problems creating CMP entity beans from session beans with EJB2.0. Seems to work as advertsied :-) I suggest posting your code and descriptors; I'll take a look, and the more examples of EJB2.0 beans floating around the better :-) Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Archer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:18 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Please help! I get null pointer exception after > calling create > onan EB with EJB 2.0 CMP Orion 1.3.8... > > > > Hi All... > > Please help me out wityh this if you can. I'm really stuck > and already > behind schedual, so any ideas would be appreciated... > > I'm using Orion 1.3.8 and EJB 2.0 for CMP. > > I have written a fairley simple stateless session bean that's > job is to > just create a particular entity bean and populate it. This > session bean is > called from a servlet. > > When the session bean calls create on the home interface > object of the > entity bean it wants to create, the create method seems to > execute properly > and returns null. This seems true reguardless of which of two > create() > methods I call. > > After the create() method returns but before the next line of code is > executed, Orion throws the following exception: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.hashCode(CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.java:127 > ) > at com.evermind.util.ExternalHashSet.get(JAX) > at > CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.create(CrHome_EntityHomeWrapper7.java:335) > at > com.regtek.slsb.CreateNewCRBean.makeNew(CreateNewCRBean.java:41) > at > CreateNewCR_StatelessSessionBeanWrapper2.makeNew(CreateNewCR_Stateles > sSessionBeanWrapper2.java:54) > at com.regtek.protocol_servlets.MakeCR.doPost(MakeCR.java:92) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > at com.evermind.server.http.d1.si(JAX) > at com.evermind.server.http.d1.forward(JAX) > at com.evermind.server.http.ed.sp(JAX) > at com.evermind.server.http.ed.so(JAX) > at com.evermind.util.f.run(JAX) > > Of course, I have a pile of code and descriptors, but didn't > want to post > all that. If it is necessary, I will do so. Its not that I > didn't want to, > but I'm not sure which of it is relevant to this problem and > posting all of > it would make for a very long message. > > If someone could give me an idea of how to solve this I would > appreciate > it. I went through the archives and saw one other posting > from Sep 22 from > someone who was having this exact problem, but I could find > no reply. I > sent that guy a note, and he wrote back telling me he gave up on it. > > I would post a bug in Bugzilla, but I'm not sure this is a > bug. It seems > too fundamental a problem to be a bug in Orion. > > Thanks very much. > > Jim > > > >