<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This problem was supposed to be fixed in MR3. Can you please provide a self contained test and attach it to a JIRA so I can investigate and fix?<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thank you,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Edson<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
2007/7/12, Sarika Khamitkar &lt;<a href="mailto:skhamitkar@risklabs.com">skhamitkar@risklabs.com</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">










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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">This is the again regarding the NullPointerException
issue. Sorry for resending this message again. But I would really appreciate a
response on how this can be resolved.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The following is the exception I get while
removing a package from the RuleBase.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">java.lang.NullPointerException</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.removeObjectSink(CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.java:125)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.ObjectSource.removeObjectSink(ObjectSource.java:123)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.ObjectTypeNode.removeObjectSink(ObjectTypeNode.java:297)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.ObjectTypeNode.remove(ObjectTypeNode.java:232)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.AlphaNode.remove(AlphaNode.java:187)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.AlphaNode.remove(AlphaNode.java:187)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.BetaNode.remove(BetaNode.java:185)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.BetaNode.remove(BetaNode.java:187)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.RuleTerminalNode.remove(RuleTerminalNode.java:439)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.ReteooBuilder.removeRule(ReteooBuilder.java:135)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.reteoo.ReteooRuleBase.removeRule(ReteooRuleBase.java:259)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at
org.drools.common.AbstractRuleBase.removePackage(AbstractRuleBase.java:408)</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">….</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">This exception has been occurring after I
recently switched to 4.0 MR3. </span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Sarika Khamitkar<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 11, 2007
6:31 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rules-users@lists.jboss.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [rules-users]
NullPointerException while deleting the rule package</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Sorry for resending the message. This is
an urgent issue and if anybody has encountered this problem, can you please let
me know how it can be resolved?</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">If I have over 3 packages in the RuleBase
and I try to remove one of those packages, then I get a NullPointerException.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Sarika Khamitkar<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 11, 2007
3:34 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rules-users@lists.jboss.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [rules-users] NullPointerException
while deleting the rule package</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi,</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am trying a remove a rule from the RuleBase using the
following syntax and get a NullPointerException:</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ruleBase.removePackage(&quot;rule2392016206&quot;);</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Before removing the package, I am iterating through all the
packages in the ruleBase and I can see this package name in the list. I am not
sure why this exception is being thrown then.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am using 4.0 MR3.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Has this feature changed since 3.0.6?</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Sarika</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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