NullPointerException occurs during parsing web.xml with missing context param-name ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBMETA-377 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBMETA-377 Project: JBoss Metadata Issue Type: Bug Components: common Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Final, 7.1.1.Final Reporter: Jay Kumar SenSharma Assignee: Bartosz Baranowski Fix For: 8.0.1.Final [Opening this issue to track down the issue specific to jboss metadata] While deploying a WAR, If the web.xml file is used which has context <param-value> defined, However it has missing <param-name> then it causes NullPointerException. Refer to for more details: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-3699