[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-1551) NullPointerException thrown by BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor when deploying a Grails application

NullPointerException thrown by BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor when deploying a Grails application -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-1551 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1551 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 7.0.0.Final Environment: Mac OS X 10.7, Java 1.6.0_26 Reporter: John Paul Alcala Assignee: jaikiran pai Labels: deployment, grails I have a Grails 1.3.7 application running fine on JBoss AS 5.1.0 and JBoss AS 6. However, when I attempted to deploy the same application on AS7 in standalone mode, I got the following error: {code} 23:46:46,560 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) Starting deployment of "example.war" 23:46:50,740 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.service-loader] (MSC service thread 1-2) Encountered invalid class name "org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser,org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer" for service type "org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory" 23:46:50,814 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-1) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "example.war" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.deploy(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:72) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.example.warDeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115) ... 5 more 23:46:50,818 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Deployment of "example.war" was rolled back with failure message {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}} 23:46:50,819 INFO [org.jboss.as.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Service status report Services which failed to start: service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "example.war" 23:46:50,827 ERROR [org.jboss.as.deployment] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) {"Composite operation failed and was rolled back. Steps that failed:" => {"Operation step-2" => {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}}}} 23:46:51,015 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-2) Stopped deployment example.war in 193ms {code} Seeing that the deployer was complaining about not being able to see org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser and org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer, I excluded the xpp3 jar included in the WAR and performed another deployment. Here is the resulting log: {code} 23:50:51,009 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) Starting deployment of "example.war" 23:50:54,506 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "example.war" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.deploy(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:72) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115) ... 5 more 23:50:54,508 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) Deployment of "example.war" was rolled back with failure message {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}} 23:50:54,658 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-3) Stopped deployment example.war in 150ms 23:50:54,660 ERROR [org.jboss.as.deployment] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) {"Composite operation failed and was rolled back. Steps that failed:" => {"Operation step-2" => {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}}}} {code} As seen from the two error logs, a NullPointerException is being thrown by BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor at the same line number (72). I have tried excluding other jars, to no avail. I even tried deleting all the jars inside WEB-INF/lib in the hope of getting a different error (and to get a clue as to what's going on), but I still get the same result.