<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to set up a simple Drools (6.0.1.Final) application that pulls a kmodule from an external jar that is installed in the local Maven repository. Unfortunately when my code executes the newKieContainer method it crashes with a NullPointerException.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Here is my code...</div><div><br></div><div><div>    KieServices kieServices = KieServices.Factory.get();</div><div>    ReleaseId releaseId = kieServices.newReleaseId(&quot;com.mycompany&quot;, &quot;mymodule&quot;, &quot;1.0-SNAPSHOT&quot;);</div>

<div>    KieContainer kContainer = kieServices.newKieContainer(releaseId);</div></div><div><br></div><div>And here is the output I get...</div><div><br></div><div><div>[pool-1-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div>

<div>[pool-3-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div><div>[pool-5-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div>

<div>[pool-7-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div><div>[pool-9-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div>

<div>[pool-11-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div><div>[pool-13-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div>

<div>[pool-15-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div><div>[pool-17-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application&#39;s worked threads is 16</div>

<div>Disconnected from the target VM, address: &#39;<a href="http://127.0.0.1:51890">127.0.0.1:51890</a>&#39;, transport: &#39;socket&#39;</div><div>Exception in thread &quot;main&quot; java.lang.NullPointerException</div>

<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.addDependencies(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:128)</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.buildArtifact(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:119)</div>

<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.loadArtifact(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:90)</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.loadArtifact(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:83)</div>

<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl.loadKieModuleFromMavenRepo(KieRepositoryImpl.java:113)</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl.getKieModule(KieRepositoryImpl.java:99)</div>

<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl.getKieModule(KieRepositoryImpl.java:76)</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieServicesImpl.newKieContainer(KieServicesImpl.java:84)</div>

</div><div><br></div><div>The module has the following dependencies listed in the pom.xml.</div><div><br></div><div>&lt;dependencies&gt;</div><div>    &lt;!-- Drools --&gt;</div><div>      &lt;dependency&gt;</div><div>          &lt;groupId&gt;org.drools&lt;/groupId&gt;</div>

<div>          &lt;artifactId&gt;drools-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;</div><div>          &lt;version&gt;${drools.version}&lt;/version&gt;</div><div>          &lt;scope&gt;compile&lt;/scope&gt;</div><div>      &lt;/dependency&gt;</div>

<div>      &lt;dependency&gt;</div><div>          &lt;groupId&gt;org.drools&lt;/groupId&gt;</div><div>          &lt;artifactId&gt;drools-compiler&lt;/artifactId&gt;</div><div>          &lt;version&gt;${drools.version}&lt;/version&gt;</div>

<div>          &lt;scope&gt;compile&lt;/scope&gt;</div><div>      &lt;/dependency&gt;</div><div>      &lt;dependency&gt;</div><div>          &lt;groupId&gt;org.drools&lt;/groupId&gt;</div><div>          &lt;artifactId&gt;drools-decisiontables&lt;/artifactId&gt;</div>

<div>          &lt;version&gt;${drools.version}&lt;/version&gt;</div><div>          &lt;scope&gt;compile&lt;/scope&gt;</div><div>      &lt;/dependency&gt;</div><div>      &lt;dependency&gt;</div><div>          &lt;groupId&gt;org.drools&lt;/groupId&gt;</div>

<div>          &lt;artifactId&gt;drools-persistence-jpa&lt;/artifactId&gt;</div><div>          &lt;version&gt;${drools.version}&lt;/version&gt;</div><div>          &lt;scope&gt;compile&lt;/scope&gt;</div><div>      &lt;/dependency&gt;</div>

<div>      &lt;!-- Misc --&gt;</div><div>      &lt;dependency&gt;</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>  &lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>  &lt;artifactId&gt;slf4j-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;</div>

<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>  &lt;version&gt;1.7.6&lt;/version&gt;</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&lt;/dependency&gt;</div><div>    &lt;dependency&gt;</div><div>      &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;</div>

<div>      &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;</div><div>      &lt;version&gt;3.8.1&lt;/version&gt;</div><div>      &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;</div><div>    &lt;/dependency&gt;</div><div>&lt;/dependencies&gt;</div>

<div><br></div><div>I have tried searching for help on this but am unable to find anything related. Any help here is appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Philippe Steinmetz</div></div>