'Bean does not have a public constructor that does not take parameters' error despite clearly having one?

Question

I have an EmailService EJB that has a very simple \'send_email\' method. I\'m receving the error in the title despite clearly having a public constructor that does not take para

Answer 1

The injection has not yet happened.

In short:

1. container calls the constructor
2. then the injected fields get injected
3. then the postconstruct stuff happens

Thus extract the lookups, as suggested, into a postconstruct method