NullPointerException in KnowledgeSessionDefinitionParser -------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-2868 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2868 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: drools-spring Affects Versions: 5.2.0.M1 Reporter: bodi bajk Assignee: Mark Proctor Fix For: FUTURE Stack trace: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.drools.container.spring.namespace.KnowledgeSessionDefinitionParser.parseInternal(KnowledgeSessionDefinitionParser.java:321) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractBeanDefinitionParser.parse(AbstractBeanDefinitionParser.java:59) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:73) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1335) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1325) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:135) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:93) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390) For example, my applicationContext.xml: ..... <bean id="config" factory-method="getConfiguration" factory-bean="configFactory" /> ..... solution: class: org.drools.container.spring.namespace.KnowledgeSessionDefinitionParser method: parseInternal line : if ( def.getBeanClassName().equals( KnowledgeAgentBeanFactory.class.getName() ) ) { should be replaced with somethig like this: if ( KnowledgeAgentBeanFactory.class.getName().equals( def.getBeanClassName() ) ) { -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira