Hi everybody.<br><br>I am having a problem to instantiate a console application with Drools and Sping. With Spring, I am able to instanciate a bean and print its value to console, but with Spring + Drools I get this error:<br>
<br>Exception in thread &quot;main&quot; org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name &#39;kbase&#39;: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to parser Reader<br>
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1338)<br>        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:473)<br>
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)<br>        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)<br>        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)<br>
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)<br>        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)<br>
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)<br>        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)<br>
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)<br>        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:423)<br>
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:728)<br>        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:380)<br>
        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.&lt;init&gt;(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)<br>        at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.&lt;init&gt;(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)<br>
        at com.test.Test.main(Test.java:10)<br>Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to parser Reader<br>        at org.drools.compiler.DrlParser.getParser(DrlParser.java:313)<br>        at org.drools.compiler.DrlParser.parse(DrlParser.java:141)<br>
        at org.drools.compiler.DrlParser.parse(DrlParser.java:147)<br>        at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackageFromDrl(PackageBuilder.java:263)<br>        at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addKnowledgeResource(PackageBuilder.java:458)<br>
        at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addKnowledgeResource(PackageBuilder.java:519)<br>        at org.drools.builder.impl.KnowledgeBuilderImpl.add(KnowledgeBuilderImpl.java:28)<br>        at org.drools.container.spring.beans.KnowledgeBaseBeanFactory.afterPropertiesSet(KnowledgeBaseBeanFactory.java:103)<br>
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1369)<br>        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1335)<br>
        ... 15 more<br>Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException<br>        at java.io.FilterInputStream.close(Unknown Source)<br>        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection$JarURLInputStream.close(Unknown Source)<br>
        at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.implClose(Unknown Source)<br>        at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.close(Unknown Source)<br>        at java.io.InputStreamReader.close(Unknown Source)<br>        at org.antlr.runtime.ANTLRReaderStream.load(ANTLRReaderStream.java:92)<br>
        at org.antlr.runtime.ANTLRInputStream.&lt;init&gt;(ANTLRInputStream.java:68)<br>        at org.antlr.runtime.ANTLRInputStream.&lt;init&gt;(ANTLRInputStream.java:52)<br>        at org.antlr.runtime.ANTLRInputStream.&lt;init&gt;(ANTLRInputStream.java:48)<br>
        at org.antlr.runtime.ANTLRInputStream.&lt;init&gt;(ANTLRInputStream.java:40)<br>        at org.drools.compiler.DrlParser.getParser(DrlParser.java:308)<br>        ... 24 more<br><br>I use eclipse, and running from the IDE Spring + Drools in a console application works fine. This problem happens when I generate an executable jar and try the &quot;java -jar&quot; command.<br>
<br>My main method is below<br><br>public static void main(String[] args) {<br>        ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(&quot;appConfig.xml&quot;);<br>        StatefulKnowledgeSession ksession = (StatefulKnowledgeSession) context.getBean(&quot;ksession&quot;);<br>
        System.out.println(ksession);<br>}<br><br>And my applicationContext.xml is below<br><br>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;<br>&lt;beans xmlns=&quot;<a href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans">http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans</a>&quot;<br>
       xmlns:xsi=&quot;<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</a>&quot;<br>       xmlns:drools=&quot;<a href="http://drools.org/schema/drools-spring">http://drools.org/schema/drools-spring</a>&quot;       <br>
       xmlns:camel=&quot;<a href="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring</a>&quot;<br>       xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;<a href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans">http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans</a> <a href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd</a><br>
                           <a href="http://drools.org/schema/drools-spring">http://drools.org/schema/drools-spring</a> <a href="http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/trunk/drools-container/drools-spring/src/main/resources/org/drools/container/spring/drools-spring-1.0.0.xsd">http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/trunk/drools-container/drools-spring/src/main/resources/org/drools/container/spring/drools-spring-1.0.0.xsd</a><br>
                           <a href="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring</a> <a href="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd</a>&quot;&gt;<br>
<br>      &lt;drools:kbase id=&quot;kbase&quot;&gt;<br>        &lt;drools:resources&gt;<br>            &lt;drools:resource source=&quot;classpath:knowledgebase-config.xml&quot; type=&quot;CHANGE_SET&quot; /&gt;<br>        &lt;/drools:resources&gt;<br>
    &lt;/drools:kbase&gt;<br>    <br>    &lt;drools:ksession id=&quot;ksession&quot; type=&quot;stateful&quot; kbase=&quot;kbase&quot; /&gt;<br>&lt;/beans&gt;<br><br>Any clue of what is cousing the problem? Thank you very much.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Anderson<br><br>