AS7 gives NPE when jboss-web.xml is missing from WAR ---------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-1046 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1046 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Web Affects Versions: Open To Community Environment: Windows XP, JDK 1.6 Reporter: Nathan Kopp Attachments: jaxws-test.war I'm trying to deploy a simple WAR (nearly empty, with a single JAX-WS web service) using a fairly recent snapshot of JBoss AS7. If I do not include jboss-web.xml in the WEB-INF folder, I get the following NPE when deploying to standalone\deployment 12:17:25,356 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-3) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."jaxws-test.war".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."jaxws-test.war".INSTALL: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment "jaxws-test.war" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1675) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_10] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_10] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) [:1.6.0_10] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.webservices.util.WebMetaDataHelper.getServlets(WebMetaDataHelper.java:130) at org.jboss.as.webservices.tomcat.WebMetaDataCreator.createServlets(WebMetaDataCreator.java:173) at org.jboss.as.webservices.tomcat.WebMetaDataCreator.createWebAppDescriptor(WebMetaDataCreator.java:109) at org.jboss.as.webservices.tomcat.WebMetaDataCreator.create(WebMetaDataCreator.java:93) at org.jboss.as.webservices.tomcat.WebMetaDataCreatingDeploymentAspect.start(WebMetaDataCreatingDeploymentAspect.java:48) at org.jboss.as.webservices.deployers.AspectDeploymentProcessor.internalDeploy(AspectDeploymentProcessor.java:78) at org.jboss.as.webservices.deployers.TCCLDeploymentProcessor.deploy(TCCLDeploymentProcessor.java:42) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115) ... 4 more When I add a very simple jboss-web.xml file (containing only the context-root tag), the deployment succeeds. Attached is the WAR file. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira