[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (EJBTHREE-1969) EJB3 deployments lead to java.lang.IllegalStateException: Null beannMetaData

[ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-1969?page=com.atlassian.jira.... ] jaikiran pai commented on EJBTHREE-1969: ---------------------------------------- The .ear is packaged as follows: .ear | |--- ejb.jar |--- web.war |--- lib | |--- some utility jars | |--- some jars containing beans The ejb.jar has references to beans deployed in jar(s) in the .ear/lib folder. This leads to the deployer throwing: 2009-12-13 14:02:03,661 ERROR [org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.AbstractKernelController] (main) Error installing to Real: name=vfszip:/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/myapp.ear/ state=PreReal mode=Manual requiredState=Real org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error deploying rhevm.ear: failed to initialize bean container at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:196) at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:99) at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSRealDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractVFSRealDeployer.java:45) at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50) ... at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.registerProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:308) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:256) at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461) at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221) at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to initialize bean container at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.<init>(EJBContainer.java:255) at org.jboss.ejb3.session.SessionContainer.<init>(SessionContainer.java:119) at org.jboss.ejb3.service.ServiceContainer.<init>(ServiceContainer.java:122) at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3AnnotationHandler.getServiceContainer(Ejb3AnnotationHandler.java:267) at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3AnnotationHandler.getContainers(Ejb3AnnotationHandler.java:225) at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deployElement(Ejb3Deployment.java:734) at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deployElement(Ejb3Deployment.java:685) at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deployUrl(Ejb3Deployment.java:667) at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deploy(Ejb3Deployment.java:630) at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.create(Ejb3Deployment.java:507) at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:182) ... 33 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Null beannMetaData at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.setupMetaDataLists(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:315) at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.initialise(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:235) at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.<init>(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:138) at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.AdditiveBeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.<init>(AdditiveBeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:48) at org.jboss.ejb3.aop.BeanContainer.initialize(BeanContainer.java:195) at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.<init>(EJBContainer.java:251) ... 43 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException The real issue here is a bug in the EJB3Deployer which has been fixed in JBPAPP-2934/JBAS-7004. With the bug fix in JBPAPP-2934/JBAS-7004, there shouldn't be any NPE as reported in this exception stacktrace. However, an important point to remember which packaging is that "auto-detection" of EJBs through annotation scanning will *not* be done in jars packaged in the "lib" folder of the EAR. So if it's not explicitly marked as an ejb-module in the application.xml, such EJBs will never be deployed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira