JPA module throws NPE when binding unavailable persistence unit --------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-1994 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-1994 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: JPA / Hibernate Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Alpha4 Environment: Fedora 19, Wildfly a0c7edb142b75d92276fb9fa9c0033ea1d583934 or AS7.2.0 Reporter: Brent Douglas Assignee: Scott Marlow Fix For: 8.0.0.CR1 When binding an unavailable PU to JNDI an NPE is thrown rather than a message explaining the problem. {noformat} 13:33:55,185 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-4) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."fails.ear".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."fails.ear".POST_MODULE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "fails.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:166) [wildfly-server-8.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1944) [jboss-msc-1.2.0.Beta2.jar:1.2.0.Beta2] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1877) [jboss-msc-1.2.0.Beta2.jar:1.2.0.Beta2] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.jpa.processor.PersistenceRefProcessor.getPersistenceUnitBindingSource(PersistenceRefProcessor.java:211) at org.jboss.as.jpa.processor.PersistenceRefProcessor.getPersistenceUnitRefs(PersistenceRefProcessor.java:127) at org.jboss.as.jpa.processor.PersistenceRefProcessor.processDescriptorEntries(PersistenceRefProcessor.java:78) at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.AbstractDeploymentDescriptorBindingsProcessor.deploy(AbstractDeploymentDescriptorBindingsProcessor.java:95) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:159) [wildfly-server-8.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT] ... 5 more {noformat}