Context initialization exceptions are swallowed on deployment ------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-6231 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6231 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: EE Affects Versions: 7.2.0.Alpha1 Environment: Windows 7 Reporter: jarkko rantavuori Assignee: David Lloyd Attachments: jboss-7.1.1.-stacktrace-beans.txt, jboss-7.1.1.-stacktrace-namespace.txt, jboss-7.2.0.-stacktrace-namespace.txt, spring-app-1.0.0-BUILD-SNAPSHOT-startupexception.war On 7.2.0.Alpha1, trying to deploy a simple spring app with problems in context initialization, all exceptions are swallowed, and only a meaningless error org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in anonymous service: JBAS018040: Failed to start context at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.doStart(WebDeploymentService.java:161) is shown, making it impossible to find out the root cause. On 7.1.1., meaningful exception is shown, like Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0] Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml] or org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 6; columnNumber: 108; cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'. which allows the developer to fix the problem.