Philippe Marschall created JBJCA-941: ---------------------------------------- Summary: NPE in ResourceAdapter1516Impl for invalid RAR Key: JBJCA-941 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBJCA-941 Project: IronJacamar Issue Type: Bug Components: Common Affects Versions: 1.0.13.Final Reporter: Philippe Marschall Assignee: Jesper Pedersen In case of an invalid RAR (JCA 1.6 but not adapter class) you get the following deployment error in JBoss AS. {code} 15:38:22,236 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-4) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."sample-application-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear"."sample-adapter-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.rar".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."sample-application-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear"."sample-adapter-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.rar".INSTALL: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase INSTALL of subdeployment "sample-adapter-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.rar" of deployment "sample-application-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:127) [jboss-as-server-7.2.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:7.2.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) [rt.jar:1.8.0-ea] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) [rt.jar:1.8.0-ea] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.8.0-ea] Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.connector.deployers.ra.processors.ParsedRaDeploymentProcessor.deploy(ParsedRaDeploymentProcessor.java:185) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:120) [jboss-as-server-7.2.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:7.2.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.jca.common.metadata.ra.common.ResourceAdapter1516Impl.validate(ResourceAdapter1516Impl.java:351) at org.jboss.jca.common.metadata.ra.common.ConnectorAbstractmpl.validate(ConnectorAbstractmpl.java:332) at org.jboss.as.connector.deployers.ra.processors.ParsedRaDeploymentProcessor.deploy(ParsedRaDeploymentProcessor.java:142) ... 6 more {code} It should be a {code}org.jboss.jca.common.api.validator.ValidateException{code} but ends up being a {code}java.lang.NullPointerException{code}. The problem is that {code}ResourceAdapter1516Impl#validate(){code} uses {code} this.resourceadapterClass == null {code} instead of {code} XsdString.isNull(this.resourceadapterClass) {code} like {code}#getResourceadapterClass(){code} or the constructor. {code} this.resourceadapterClass.getValue() {code} then returns {code}null{code} so {code} this.resourceadapterClass.getValue().trim() {code} throws a {code}NullPointerException{code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira