MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser throws NullPointerException ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-2817 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-2817 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Mail Affects Versions: 8.0.0.CR1 Reporter: Kai P. Assignee: Tomaz Cerar Priority: Critical Fix For: 8.0.0.Final Having a @MailSessionDefinition annotation with properties, MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser throws a NullPointerException {code} @MailSessionDefinition( name = "java:comp/devMailSession", host = "mymailserver", transportProtocol = "smtp", user = "myuser", password = "mypassword", from = "my(a)email.com", properties = { "mail.debug=true" }) {code} Stacktrace while starting wildfly: {code} ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-6) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."test.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test.war".PARSE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "test.war" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:166) [wildfly-server-8.0.0.CR1.jar:8.0.0.CR1] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1948) [jboss-msc-1.2.0.CR1.jar:1.2.0.CR1] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1881) [jboss-msc-1.2.0.CR1.jar:1.2.0.CR1] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.mail.extension.MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser.getBindingConfiguration(MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser.java:143) at org.jboss.as.mail.extension.MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser.processMailSession(MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser.java:107) at org.jboss.as.mail.extension.MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser.deploy(MailSessionDefinitionAnnotationParser.java:96) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:159) [wildfly-server-8.0.0.CR1.jar:8.0.0.CR1] ... 5 more {code} Related code: {code} MailSessionMetaData metaData = new MailSessionMetaData(); metaData.setTransportProtocol(asString(annotationInstance, "transportProtocol")); metaData.setStoreProtocol(asString(annotationInstance, "storeProtocol")); metaData.setHost(asString(annotationInstance, "host")); metaData.setUser(asString(annotationInstance, "user")); metaData.setPassword(asString(annotationInstance, "password")); metaData.setFrom(asString(annotationInstance, "from")); metaData.setName(nameValue.asString()); String jndiName = MailSessionAdd.getJndiName(nameValue.asString()); for (String fullProp : asArray(annotationInstance, "properties")) { PropertyMetaData p = new PropertyMetaData(); String[] prop = fullProp.split("=", 2); p.setName(prop[0]); p.setValue(prop[1]); metaData.getProperties().add(p); // thrown NPE } {code} After looking at MailSessionMetaData the properties property is not initialized so getProperties() returns null