Infinispan throwing misleading exception when river.jar is not present ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: ISPN-1221 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1221 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Bug Components: Marshalling Affects Versions: 5.0.0.CR7 Reporter: Galder Zamarreño Assignee: Galder Zamarreño Priority: Minor Fix For: 5.0.0.FINAL If JBoss Marshalling cannot find the River jar, the Infinispan code throws an NPE: {code}Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.infinispan.marshall.jboss.GenericJBossMarshaller$1.initialValue(GenericJBossMarshaller.java:75) at org.infinispan.marshall.jboss.GenericJBossMarshaller$1.initialValue(GenericJBossMarshaller.java:71) at java.lang.ThreadLocal.setInitialValue(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ThreadLocal.get(Unknown Source) at org.infinispan.marshall.jboss.GenericJBossMarshaller.startObjectOutput(GenericJBossMarshaller.java:130) at org.infinispan.marshall.VersionAwareMarshaller.startObjectOutput(VersionAwareMarshaller.java:126) at org.infinispan.marshall.VersionAwareMarshaller.objectToBuffer(VersionAwareMarshaller.java:91) at org.infinispan.marshall.AbstractMarshaller.objectToBuffer(AbstractMarshaller.java:31) at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.MarshallerAdapter.objectToBuffer(MarshallerAdapter.java:22){code} This should not happen. Instead return a more meaningful exception. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira