Need better error reporting of circular dependencies ---------------------------------------------------- Key: JBMICROCONT-101 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMICROCONT-101 Project: JBoss MicroContainer Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Dependency Affects Versions: JBossMC_2_0_0M1 Reporter: Scott M Stark Fix For: JBossMC_2_0_0M1 I switched around some dependencies and ended up producing a circular dependency: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- A ProfileServiceBootstrap bootstrap descriptor that uses the simple VFSDeploymentScanner that goes directly to the MainDeployer rather than the ProfileService. $Id$ --> <deployment xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0 bean-deployer_2_0.xsd" xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> <!-- --> <bean name="ProfileService" class="org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceImpl"> <constructor> <parameter>${jboss.server.name}</parameter> </constructor> <property name="profileRoot">${jboss.server.home.url}/profile</property> </bean> <!-- The MainDeployer --> <bean name="MainDeployer" class="org.jboss.deployers.plugins.MainDeployerImpl"> <property name="VFSFactory"><inject bean="VFSFactory"/></property> <property name="deployers"> <array class="[Lorg.jboss.deployers.spi.AspectDeployer;" elementClass="org.jboss.deployers.spi.AspectDeployer"> <inject bean="ClassLoadingDeployer"/> <inject bean="BeanDeployer"/> <inject bean="SARDeployer"/> </array> </property> <supply>Deployers</supply> </bean> <!-- The factory for VFS instances --> <bean name="VFSFactory" class="org.jboss.vfs.file.DefaultVFSFactory"> </bean> <!-- Deployers. Declaration order defines the deployer chain order --> <bean name="ClassLoadingDeployer" class="org.jboss.deployers.plugins.classloading.ClassLoadingDeployer"> </bean> <bean name="BeanDeployer" class="org.jboss.deployers.plugins.bean.BeanDeployer"> </bean> <!-- Load the jboss jmx classes --> <bean name="JMXClassLoader" class="org.jboss.vfs.classloading.VFSClassLoader"> <constructor factoryClass="org.jboss.vfs.classloading.VFSClassLoaderFactory" factoryMethod="newClassLoader"> <parameter class="java.net.URL">${jboss.lib.url}</parameter> <parameter> <array class="[Ljava.lang.String;" elementClass="java.lang.String"> <value>dom4j.jar</value> <value>jboss-j2se.jar</value> <value>jboss-jmx.jar</value> <value>jboss-mbeans.jar</value> <value>jboss-system-jmx.jar</value> </array> </parameter> <parameter><inject bean="MainDeployer" property="VFSFactory"/></parameter> </constructor> </bean> <bean name="SARDeployer" class="org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer"> <classloader><inject bean="JMXClassLoader"/></classloader> <property name="useNamespaceAwareParser">true</property> <property name="server"><inject bean="JMXKernel" property="mbeanServer" /></property> <property name="serviceController"><inject bean="JMXKernel" property="serviceController" /></property> </bean> <!-- A bean that setups a jboss-4.0.x type of jmx kernel to support the the legacy mbean deployments handled by the SARDeployer --> <bean name="JMXKernel" class="org.jboss.system.server.jmx.JMXKernel"> <classloader><inject bean="JMXClassLoader"/></classloader> <property name="serverImpl"><inject bean="org.jboss.system.server.Server"/></property> </bean> <!-- Hot deployment service that directly uses the MainDeployer --> <bean name="VFSDeploymentScanner" class="org.jboss.deployers.plugins.scanner.VFSDeploymentScannerImpl"> <property name="mainDeployer"><inject bean="MainDeployer"/></property> <property name="VFSFactory"><inject bean="MainDeployer" property="VFSFactory" /></property> <property name="URIList"> <list elementClass="java.net.URI"><value>${jboss.server.home.url}/deploy/</value></list> </property> <property name="scanPeriod"><value>500000</value></property> <demand state="Instantiated">Deployers</demand> </bean> </deployment> All that was reported was a NPE due to the target of the demand=Deployers not being Instantiated: 12:37:31,477 DEBUG [ServerImpl] Failed to start java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null name at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.getContext(AbstractController.java:101) at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.AbstractKernelController.getContext(AbstractKernelController.java:94) at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.AbstractKernelDeployer.internalValidate(AbstractKernelDeployer.java:229) at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.AbstractKernelDeployer.validate(AbstractKernelDeployer.java:161) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.bootstrap(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:202) at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.bootstrap.AbstractBootstrap.run(AbstractBootstrap.java:89) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:371) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:323) at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:210) at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:488) at java.lang.Thread.run()V(Unknown Source) What should be reported is the bean which supplies the demand and its state not matching and why. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira