I've been following the 'Netbeans E-Commerce tutorial', and have am currently on this step: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/javaee/ecommerce/entity-session.html
I have fully configured my Window 7 account as per that page, with NetBeans 6.9.1, Glassfish server and MySQL.
I'm getting an error 500 when executing 'Category' page (log extract below). The error manifests itself when I complete step 3 in the 'selected category' sub-section of the 'Accessing Data with EJBs' this page. The line in question is:
// get selected category
selectedCategory = categoryFacade.find(Short.parseShort(categoryId));
If I comment this line out, the bug goes away.
The log file snippet is here:
[#|2010-09-29T18:32:32.570+0100|WARNING|glassfish3.0.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.web.com.sun.enterprise.web|_ThreadID=30;_ThreadName=http-thread-pool-8080-(2);|StandardWrapperValve[Controller]: PWC1406: Servlet.service() for servlet Controller threw exception
javax.ejb.EJBException
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.processSystemException(BaseContainer.java:5119)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.completeNewTx(BaseContainer.java:5017)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvokeTx(BaseContainer.java:4805)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:2004)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.postInvoke(BaseContainer.java:1955)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandler.java:198)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.invoke(EJBLocalObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.java:84)
at $Proxy355.find(Unknown Source)
at session.__EJB31_Generated__CategoryFacade__Intf____Bean__.find(Unknown Source)
at controller.ControllerServlet.doGet(ControllerServlet.java:68)
Line 68 in the ControllerServlet code is the one identified above.
My experience with both Java and Netbeans is sufficiently light that I'm not even sure how to go about starting to debug this. I've followed the tutorial pretty closely, so it should not be something I've missed - but mistakes do happen.
I understand an outright solution based on the information contained would be difficult. If there is any further information required, please ask. Failing that, if anyone has any suggestions on how I can further investigate this on my own, I'd be very grateful.
I always think cracking problems is the best way to learn, but it is pretty frustrating as well.
Update: I've been running through the NetBeans debugger. It appears that the problem is with the cast code (Short.parseShort(categoryId)). When I replace this with a simple numeral it works. e.g. this code works // get selected category selectedCategory = categoryFacade.find(1);
Does anyone have any ideas why the cast is failing? categoryId is confirmed as a string with a value of "1" in the debugger...