EJB Based Application Deployment Fails With The Error "Resolving ejb-ref"

(Doc ID 1540618.1)

Last updated on MARCH 01, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle WebLogic Server - Version 12.1.1.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Cannot deploy EJB based application (Maven generated) to WLS 12.1.1 due to the error below.
No problem with WLS 10.3.5/6.

Error

weblogic.application.naming.ReferenceResolutionException: [J2EE:160199]Error resolving ejb-ref "myPkg.myAdminServlet/clusterConfigFacade" from module "myWebClient.war" of application "myAppli". The ejb-ref does not have an ejb-link and the JNDI name of the target bean has not been specified. Attempts to automatically link the ejb-ref to its target bean failed because multiple EJBs in the application were found to implement the "myPkg.myAttributeFacade" interface, including myFacade.jar/myAttributeFacadeBean, myWebClient.war/myAttributeFacadeBean. Specify a qualified ejb-link for this ejb-ref to indicate which EJB is the target of this ejb-ref.
at weblogic.application.naming.EnvUtils.findInfo(EnvUtils.java:856)
at weblogic.application.naming.EnvUtils.findInfoByReferenceClass(EnvUtils.java:783)
at weblogic.application.naming.EjbReferenceResolver.resolveEjbRef(EjbReferenceResolver.java:92)
at weblogic.application.naming.EjbReferenceResolver.resolve(EjbReferenceResolver.java:71)
at weblogic.application.naming.EjbReferenceResolver.get(EjbReferenceResolver.java:58)
at weblogic.application.naming.EnvironmentBuilder.bindEJBReferences(EnvironmentBuilder.java:1226)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.CompEnv.activate(CompEnv.java:267)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.activate(WebAppServletContext.java:2730)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.activateContexts(WebAppModule.java:1691)

 

Cause

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