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    Exception deploying MDB !
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/groovenarula">Gurvinderpal Narula</a> in <i>Beginner's Corner</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/572553#572553">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I'm trying to deploy an EJB Jar that has just the following compiled classes for an MDB on JBOSS 5.1.0 :</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; com/</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; com/company/</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; com/company/services</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; com/company/services/Mail.class</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; com/company/services/ForwardResponse.class</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I get the following error when I deploy the MDB:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>13:30:53,603 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Real: name=vfszip:/opt/jboss/server/node1/deploy/ServiceResponse.jar/ state=PreReal mode=Manual requiredState=Real<br/>org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error deploying ServiceResponse.jar: failed to initialize bean container<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:196)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:99)</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; .</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; .</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; .</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; .</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)<br/>Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to initialize bean container<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.&lt;init&gt;(EJBContainer.java:257)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.mdb.MessagingContainer.&lt;init&gt;(MessagingContainer.java:87)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.mdb.MDB.&lt;init&gt;(MDB.java:63)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3AnnotationHandler.getMDB(Ejb3AnnotationHandler.java:339)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; .</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; .</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:182)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; ... 33 more<br/>Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Null beannMetaData<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.setupMetaDataLists(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:315)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.initialise(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:235)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.&lt;init&gt;(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:138)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.AdditiveBeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.&lt;init&gt;(AdditiveBeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:48)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.aop.BeanContainer.initialize(BeanContainer.java:195)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.&lt;init&gt;(EJBContainer.java:253)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; ... 43 more<br/>Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.setupMetaDataLists(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:268)<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; ... 48 more</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Can someone please help me with how to trace down what I'm doing wrong ?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Groove</p></div>

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