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IllegalArgumentException: message destination name (/key) is null
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>During the deployment of an EAR I am getting the following exception. The same ear deploys fine in Jboss 4.2.3 however since upgrading to 5.1 the application no longer deploys correctly. I check the deployment descriptors (ejb-jar.xml and jboss.xml) but can't make any sense of this error messages. </p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error deploying abc.jar: message destination name (/key) is null</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:196)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:99)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSRealDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractVFSRealDeployer.java:45)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1439)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1157)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1210)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1098)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:781)</p><p>        at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:702)</p><p>        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)</p><p>        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70)</p><p>        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)</p><p>        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:361)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)</p><p>        at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)</p><p>        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.activateProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:306)</p><p>        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:271)</p><p>        at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)</p><p>        at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)</p><p>        at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)</p><p>        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)</p><p>Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: message destination name (/key) is null</p><p>        at org.jboss.metadata.javaee.support.AbstractMappedMetaData.get(AbstractMappedMetaData.java:109)</p><p>        at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.jboss.JBossAssemblyDescriptorMetaData.getMessageDestination(JBossAssemblyDescriptorMetaData.java:382)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3DescriptorHandler.addMessageDestinationAnnotations(Ejb3DescriptorHandler.java:1897)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3DescriptorHandler.addEjbAnnotations(Ejb3DescriptorHandler.java:1377)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3DescriptorHandler.addDescriptorAnnotations(Ejb3DescriptorHandler.java:922)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3DescriptorHandler.addDescriptorAnnotations(Ejb3DescriptorHandler.java:899)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3DescriptorHandler.getStatelessContainer(Ejb3DescriptorHandler.java:514)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3AnnotationHandler.getContainers(Ejb3AnnotationHandler.java:203)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deployElement(Ejb3Deployment.java:718)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deployElement(Ejb3Deployment.java:669)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deployUrl(Ejb3Deployment.java:651)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deploy(Ejb3Deployment.java:614)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.create(Ejb3Deployment.java:491)</p><p>        at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:182)</p><p>        ... 34 more</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></blockquote><p>Any suggestion to what this error refers and how I can it around it.</p></div>
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