The implementation of equals() in org.jboss.ejb3.ProxyUtils.handleCallLocally() throws a NPE when being passed a null argument. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: EJBTHREE-748 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-748 Project: EJB 3.0 Issue Type: Bug Environment: Embedded EJB3 container Reporter: Nicolas Bielza When looking up an entity bean, we get a proxy which implements equals() in a broken way: Here's an example: // Proxy NPE test: InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); Manager m = (Manager)ctx.lookup("ManagerAction/local"); try { if(m != null) { m.equals(null); } System.err.println("What bug ???"); } catch(NullPointerException e) { System.err.println("ProxyUtils NPE bug detected."); e.printStackTrace(); } And the output: ProxyUtils NPE bug detected. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.ejb3.ProxyUtils.handleCallLocally(ProxyUtils.java:156) at org.jboss.ejb3.ProxyUtils.handleCallLocally(ProxyUtils.java:137) at org.jboss.ejb3.stateful.StatefulLocalProxy.invoke(StatefulLocalProxy.java:92) at $Proxy34.equals(Unknown Source) at com.alligacom.nett.NetTransferAdminInterface.<init>(NetTransferAdminInterface.java:49) at com.alligacom.nett.NetTransferAdminInterface.main(NetTransferAdminI nterface.java:87) The incriminated line (156) in ProxyUtils is: return new Boolean(ih.toString().equals(args[0].toString())); and should be: return new Boolean(args[0] == null ? false : ih.toString().equals(args[0].toString())); -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira