JSF com.sun.faces.spi.InjectionProviderException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException - jsf

Question

In our application with JSF 2.1, when we are trying to inject an application scoped bean, it is throwing the following exception during start up.
SEVERE: Error Rendering View[/ecs_home.xhtml]
com.sun.faces.mgbean.ManagedBeanCreationException: An error occurred performing resource injection on managed bean cb
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanBuilder.invokePostConstruct(BeanBuilder.java:225)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanBuilder.build(BeanBuilder.java:101)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanManager.createAndPush(BeanManager.java:405)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanManager.create(BeanManager.java:265)
at com.sun.faces.el.ManagedBeanELResolver.resolveBean(ManagedBeanELResolver.java:191)
at com.sun.faces.el.ManagedBeanELResolver.getValue(ManagedBeanELResolver.java:73)
at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:135)
at com.sun.faces.el.FacesCompositeELResolver.getValue(FacesCompositeELResolver.java:71)
at org.jboss.el.parser.AstIdentifier.getValue(AstIdentifier.java:44)
at org.jboss.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:63)
at org.jboss.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:186)
at com.sun.faces.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getValue(TagValueExpression.java:106)
at javax.faces.component.ComponentStateHelper.eval(ComponentStateHelper.java:190)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.isRendered(UIComponentBase.java:417)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1641)
at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:164)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:849)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1647)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1650)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1650)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.renderView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:389)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.MultiViewHandler.renderView(MultiViewHandler.java:127)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:117)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:97)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:135)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:454)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: com.sun.faces.spi.InjectionProviderException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at com.sun.faces.vendor.Tomcat6InjectionProvider.invokePostConstruct(Tomcat6InjectionProvider.java:120)
at com.sun.faces.mgbean.BeanBuilder.invokePostConstruct(BeanBuilder.java:219)
... 37 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.util.DefaultAnnotationProcessor.postConstruct(DefaultAnnotationProcessor.java:96)
at com.sun.faces.vendor.Tomcat6InjectionProvider.invokePostConstruct(Tomcat6InjectionProvider.java:118)
... 38 more
How is this caused and how can I solve it?

Answer 1

An InvocationTargetException is thrown when a method that is invoked using reflection throws an exception. In your stacktrace it looks like the postconstruct method of the managed bean threw an exception. The stacktrace of this nested exception should also be available in the server logs.