Have been using Forge for months. My machine crashed, I re-installed Forge and got error on new-project command. Error was not useful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: FORGE-774 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-774 Project: Forge Issue Type: Bug Components: Forge Build Affects Versions: 1.2.0.Final Environment: MAC OSX 1.7 Mountain Lion Reporter: Robb Greathouse I downloaded and followed instructions for installation. And got error on creating new project. Problem is the error provides no information on how to fix. [no project] forge $ new-project --named forgeExample --topLevelPackage com.jboss.example ? Use [/Users/robbgreathouse/Documents/workspace/forge/forgeExample] as project directory? [Y/n] Y Wrote /Users/robbgreathouse/Documents/workspace/forge/forgeExample Wrote /Users/robbgreathouse/Documents/workspace/forge/forgeExample/pom.xml Wrote /Users/robbgreathouse/Documents/workspace/forge/forgeExample/src/main/java Wrote /Users/robbgreathouse/Documents/workspace/forge/forgeExample/src/test/java Wrote /Users/robbgreathouse/Documents/workspace/forge/forgeExample/src/main/resources Wrote /Users/robbgreathouse/Documents/workspace/forge/forgeExample/src/test/resources ***ERROR*** Exception encountered: (type "set VERBOSE false" to disable stack traces) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenContainer.getBuildingRequest(MavenContainer.java:97) at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenContainer.getRequest(MavenContainer.java:63) at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenContainer$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.getRequest(MavenContainer$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.java) at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenCoreFacetImpl.getPartialProjectBuildingResult(MavenCoreFacetImpl.java:85) at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenCoreFacetImpl.resolveProperties(MavenCoreFacetImpl.java:304) at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenDependencyFacet.resolveProperties(MavenDependencyFacet.java:393) at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenDependencyFacet.hasEffectiveDependency(MavenDependencyFacet.java:171) at org.jboss.forge.spec.javaee.BaseJavaEEFacet.isInstalled(BaseJavaEEFacet.java:64) at org.jboss.forge.spec.javaee.jpa.PersistenceFacetImpl.isInstalled(PersistenceFacetImpl.java:83) at org.jboss.forge.project.BaseProject.registerFacet(BaseProject.java:153) at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.registerSingleFacet(ProjectFactory.java:208) at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.registerSingleFacet(ProjectFactory.java:199) at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.registerSingleFacet(ProjectFactory.java:186) at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.registerFacets(ProjectFactory.java:178) at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.createProject(ProjectFactory.java:146) at org.jboss.forge.shell.plugins.builtin.NewProjectPlugin.create(NewProjectPlugin.java:205) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.forge.shell.command.Execution.perform(Execution.java:134) at org.jboss.forge.shell.command.fshparser.FSHRuntime.run(FSHRuntime.java:109) at org.jboss.forge.shell.command.fshparser.FSHRuntime.run(FSHRuntime.java:47) at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl$ExecutorThread.run(ShellImpl.java:818) at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl.execute(ShellImpl.java:841) at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl.doShell(ShellImpl.java:631) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.AbstractBeanInstance.invoke(AbstractBeanInstance.java:48) at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.ProxyMethodHandler.invoke(ProxyMethodHandler.java:125) at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.doShell(ShellImpl$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.java) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflections$13.work(SecureReflections.java:305) at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflectionAccess.run(SecureReflectionAccess.java:54) at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflectionAccess.runAsInvocation(SecureReflectionAccess.java:163) at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflections.invoke(SecureReflections.java:299) at org.jboss.weld.introspector.jlr.WeldMethodImpl.invokeOnInstance(WeldMethodImpl.java:188) at org.jboss.weld.introspector.ForwardingWeldMethod.invokeOnInstance(ForwardingWeldMethod.java:59) at org.jboss.weld.injection.MethodInjectionPoint.invokeOnInstanceWithSpecialValue(MethodInjectionPoint.java:198) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:282) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:265) at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.notify(ObserverMethodImpl.java:234) at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.notifyObservers(BeanManagerImpl.java:635) at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.fireEvent(BeanManagerImpl.java:622) at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.fireEvent(BeanManagerImpl.java:616) at org.jboss.forge.shell.Bootstrap$1.run(Bootstrap.java:172) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [no project] forge $