[jboss-user] [Beginner's Corner] - Exception deploying MDB !

Gurvinderpal Narula [http://community.jboss.org/people/groovenarula] created the discussion "Exception deploying MDB !" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/572553#572553 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I'm trying to deploy an EJB Jar that has just the following compiled classes for an MDB on JBOSS 5.1.0 :      com/      com/company/      com/company/services      com/company/services/Mail.class      com/company/services/ForwardResponse.class I get the following error when I deploy the MDB: 13:30:53,603 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Real: name=vfszip:/opt/jboss/server/node1/deploy/ServiceResponse.jar/ state=PreReal mode=Manual requiredState=Real org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error deploying ServiceResponse.jar: failed to initialize bean container         at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:196)         at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:99)      .      .      .      .        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to initialize bean container         at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.<init>(EJBContainer.java:257)         at org.jboss.ejb3.mdb.MessagingContainer.<init>(MessagingContainer.java:87)         at org.jboss.ejb3.mdb.MDB.<init>(MDB.java:63)         at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3AnnotationHandler.getMDB(Ejb3AnnotationHandler.java:339)      .      .         at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:182)         ... 33 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Null beannMetaData         at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.setupMetaDataLists(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:315)         at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.initialise(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:235)         at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.<init>(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:138)         at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.AdditiveBeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.<init>(AdditiveBeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:48)         at org.jboss.ejb3.aop.BeanContainer.initialize(BeanContainer.java:195)         at org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer.<init>(EJBContainer.java:253)         ... 43 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException         at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptors.metadata.BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.setupMetaDataLists(BeanInterceptorMetaDataBridge.java:268)         ... 48 more Can someone please help me with how to trace down what I'm doing wrong ? Thanks Groove -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/572553#572553] Start a new discussion in Beginner's Corner at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]