[wildfly-dev] WildFly 10.0.0.Alpha5: NPE in org.hibernate.cache.internal.CacheDataDescriptionImpl.decode() ?

[Frank Langelage]

After upgrading WildFly to latest alpha5 including the Hibernate ORM 
update to 5.0.0.CR2 the persistence unit inside my ear cannot be started 
anymore.

11.07. 12:17:54,698 INFO  [org.jboss.as.jpa#run] WFLYJPA0010: Starting 
Persistence Unit (phase 1 of 2) Service 
'maj2e-langfr-dev.ear/ejb-entity.jar#maj2e-langfr-dev'
11.07. 12:17:54,954 INFO 
[org.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper#logPersistenceUnitInformation] HHH000204: 
Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
         name: maj2e-langfr-dev
         ...]
11.07. 12:17:55,546 INFO  [org.hibernate.Version#logVersion] HHH000412: 
Hibernate Core {5.0.0.CR2}
11.07. 12:17:55,552 INFO [org.hibernate.cfg.Environment#<clinit>] 
HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
11.07. 12:17:55,562 INFO 
[org.hibernate.cfg.Environment#buildBytecodeProvider] HHH000021: 
Bytecode provider name : javassist
11.07. 12:17:55,701 INFO [org.hibernate.orm.deprecation#<init>] 
HHH90000001: Found usage of deprecated setting for specifying Scanner 
[hibernate.ejb.resource_scanner]; use [hibernate.archive.scanner] instead
11.07. 12:17:55,761 INFO 
[org.hibernate.annotations.common.Version#<clinit>] HCANN000001: 
Hibernate Commons Annotations {5.0.0.Final}
11.07. 12:17:55,877 INFO  [org.jboss.weld.deployer#deploy] WFLYWELD0003: 
Processing weld deployment ejb-session-core.jar
11.07. 12:17:55,940 INFO  [org.jboss.weld.deployer#deploy] WFLYWELD0006: 
Starting Services for CDI deployment: maj2e-langfr-dev.ear
11.07. 12:17:56,447 INFO  [org.jboss.weld.Version#<clinit>] WELD-000900: 
2.3.0 (Beta2)
11.07. 12:18:14,049 INFO  [org.jboss.weld.deployer#start] WFLYWELD0009: 
Starting weld service for deployment maj2e-langfr-dev.ear
[GC (Allocation Failure) [PSYoungGen: 475136K->58002K(573440K)] 
560180K->143054K(1974272K), 0.4947124 secs] [Times: user=0.80 sys=0.04, 
real=0.49 secs]
11.07. 12:18:18,028 INFO  [org.jboss.as.jpa#run] WFLYJPA0010: Starting 
Persistence Unit (phase 2 of 2) Service 
'maj2e-langfr-dev.ear/ejb-entity.jar#maj2e-langfr-dev'
11.07. 12:18:19,201 INFO [org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect#<init>] 
HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect
11.07. 12:18:19,521 INFO 
[org.hibernate.envers.boot.internal.EnversServiceImpl#configure] Envers 
integration enabled? : true
[GC (Allocation Failure) [PSYoungGen: 537234K->50463K(581632K)] 
622286K->135516K(1982464K), 0.4342550 secs] [Times: user=0.80 sys=0.00, 
real=0.43 secs]
11.07. 12:18:36,361 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail#failed] MSC000001: 
Failed to start service 
jboss.persistenceunit."maj2e-langfr-dev.ear/ejb-entity.jar#maj2e-langfr-dev": 
org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service 
jboss.persistenceunit."maj2e-langfr-dev.ear/ejb-entity.jar#maj2e-langfr-dev": 
javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: 
maj2e-langfr-dev] Unable to build Hibernate SessionFactory
         at 
org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:172)
         at 
org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:117)
         at 
org.wildfly.security.manager.WildFlySecurityManager.doChecked(WildFlySecurityManager.java:666)
         at 
org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:182)
         at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
         at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
         at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:320)
Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: 
maj2e-langfr-dev] Unable to build Hibernate SessionFactory
         at 
org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.persistenceException(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:877)
         at 
org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:805)
         at 
org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.TwoPhaseBootstrapImpl.build(TwoPhaseBootstrapImpl.java:44)
         at 
org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:154)
         ... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
         at 
org.hibernate.cache.internal.CacheDataDescriptionImpl.decode(CacheDataDescriptionImpl.java:77)
         at 
org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.determineEntityRegionAccessStrategy(SessionFactoryImpl.java:628)
         at 
org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:330)
         at 
org.hibernate.boot.internal.SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.build(SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:444)
         at 
org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:802)
         ... 9 more

My persistence.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence 
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd" version="2.1">
     <persistence-unit name="@MBI_DBNAME@" transaction-type="JTA">
<jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/@MBI_DBNAME@</jta-data-source>
<shared-cache-mode>ENABLE_SELECTIVE</shared-cache-mode>
         <validation-mode>NONE</validation-mode>
         <properties>
             <property name="hibernate.dialect" 
value="org.hibernate.dialect. at HIBERNATE_DIALECT@"/>
             <!--
                 used values are
                 "org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect"
                 "org.hibernate.dialect.InformixDialect"
             -->
             <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="@SHOW_SQL@"/>
             <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="@SHOW_SQL@"/>
             <property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments" 
value="@SHOW_SQL@"/>
         </properties>
     </persistence-unit>
</persistence>