guinotphil [http://community.jboss.org/people/guinotphil] created the discussion "NPE when deploying on latest nightly build" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/623813#623813 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I've just downloaded the latest nighly build and tryed to deploy an EAR application with my fav app server.... When I start the server I just get the following error: 17:44:40,271 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] JBoss Modules version 1.0.2.GA 17:44:40,499 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] JBoss MSC version 1.0.1.GA 17:44:40,537 INFO  [org.jboss.as] JBoss AS 7.1.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT "Lightning" starting 17:44:41,257 WARN  [org.jboss.as] No security realm defined for native management service, all access will be unrestricted. 17:44:41,307 INFO  [org.jboss.as] creating http management service using network interface (management-web) port (9990) 17:44:41,308 WARN  [org.jboss.as] No security realm defined for http management service, all access will be unrestricted. 17:44:41,314 INFO  [org.jboss.as.logging] Removing bootstrap log handlers 17:44:48,720 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-4) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."EAR_Project.ear"."ejbModule.jar".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."EAR_Project.ear"."ejbModule.jar".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of subdeployment "ejbModule.jar" of deployment "EAR_Project.ear"     at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121) [jboss-as-server-7.1.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:7.1.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT]     at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1824) [jboss-msc-1.0.1.GA.jar:1.0.1.GA]     at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1759) [jboss-msc-1.0.1.GA.jar:1.0.1.GA]     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_22]     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_22]     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_22] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException     at org.jboss.invocation.proxy.MethodIdentifier.<init>(MethodIdentifier.java:82)     at org.jboss.invocation.proxy.MethodIdentifier.getIdentifierForMethod(MethodIdentifier.java:212)     at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.TransactionAttributeMergingProcessor.processTransactionAttributeAnnotation(TransactionAttributeMergingProcessor.java:87)     at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.TransactionAttributeMergingProcessor.handleAnnotations(TransactionAttributeMergingProcessor.java:61)     at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.AbstractMergingProcessor.processComponentConfig(AbstractMergingProcessor.java:87)     at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.AbstractMergingProcessor.deploy(AbstractMergingProcessor.java:72)     at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115) [jboss-as-server-7.1.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:7.1.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT]     ... 5 more The previous version I was using was from August 15th or 16th and I could deploy the application fine... I guess it must be something wrong in an annotation, but I don't really know how to debug this... Thank you for your help ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/623813#623813] Start a new discussion in JBoss AS7 Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]