java.lang.StackOverflowError when persisting an object jpa

I am building an application using JPA, JSF, EJB, Derby. At this point the application is still small. I have a form in the application to add new products. When adding data to the db it goes smoothly until I restart the application or the server. When I restart either the server or app I get java.lang.StackOverflowError, I still can query the db for the data represented by the product db, but creation product is not possible. I have only 5 entries in the db, as of now, but I am concerned about this happening so early.

This is the Ejb (Getter, setter and constructors removed for simplicity):

@Stateless
public class ProductEJB{

    @PersistenceContext(unitName = "luavipuPU")
    private EntityManager em;

    public List<Product> findAllProducts()
    {
        TypedQuery<Product> query = em.createNamedQuery("findAllProducts", Product.class);
        return query.getResultList();
    }

    public Product findProductById(int productId)
    {
        return em.find(Product.class, productId);
    }

    public Product createProduct(Product product)
    {
        product.setDateAdded(productCreationDate());
        em.persist(product);
        return product;        
    }    

    public void updateProduct(Product product)
    {
        em.merge(product);
    }

    public void deleteProduct(Product product)
    {
        product = em.find(Product.class, product.getProduct_id());
        em.remove(em.merge(product));
    }

this is the ProductController (Getter, setter and constructors removed for simplicity):

    @Named
@RequestScoped
public class ProductController {

    @EJB
    private ProductEJB productEjb;
    @EJB
    private CategoryEJB categoryEjb;

    private Product product = new Product();
    private List<Product> productList = new ArrayList<Product>();

    private Category category;
    private List<Category> categoryList = new ArrayList<Category&g