[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-3081) Misplaced @PersistenceContext Causes Untraceable Deployment Failure

Misplaced @PersistenceContext Causes Untraceable Deployment Failure ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-3081 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3081 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: JPA / Hibernate Affects Versions: 7.0.2.Final Environment: Macintosh 10.7.2 Reporter: Jim Brownfield Assignee: Scott Marlow When deploying an ear file that contains an Entity bean with an inappropriate @PersistenceContext annotation, the following stacktrace is generated, and the deployment fails: 15:36:16,322 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-9) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."xxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.deploy.ear"."xxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.ejb-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."xxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.deploy.ear"."xxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.ejb-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar".PARSE: Failed to process phase PARSE of subdeployment "xxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.ejb-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar" of deployment "xxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.deploy.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121) [jboss-as-server-7.0.2.Final.jar:7.0.2.Final] 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$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_29] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_29] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_29] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Class level annotations must provide a name. at org.jboss.as.jpa.processor.JPAAnnotationParseProcessor.processClass(JPAAnnotationParseProcessor.java:233) at org.jboss.as.jpa.processor.JPAAnnotationParseProcessor.processPersistenceAnnotations(JPAAnnotationParseProcessor.java:127) at org.jboss.as.jpa.processor.JPAAnnotationParseProcessor.deploy(JPAAnnotationParseProcessor.java:90) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115) [jboss-as-server-7.0.2.Final.jar:7.0.2.Final] ... 5 more The IllegalArgumentException gives no data for the annotation, the class, or any relevant data to the cause. I built JBoss debug from source to discover that the culprit in my case was a misplaced PersistenceContext annotation in an entity bean. The offending annotation had actually existed in a version of our code running in JBoss 4 without error.