[jboss-user] [Snowdrop] - Solution: NPE VFS.getChild() snowdrop 2.0.0 M1 jboss 6

erik romson [http://community.jboss.org/people/romson] created the discussion "Solution: NPE VFS.getChild() snowdrop 2.0.0 M1 jboss 6" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/615850#615850 -------------------------------------------------------------- For anyone else: I got a NullpoingterException in at VFS.getChild() when starting JBoss (sadly lost the stacktrace) This was due to that I was importing spring resources from a folder that didn't exist (using a wildcard as in folder/*.xml) In org.jboss.spring.vfs.VFSResourcePatternResolvingHelper#locateResources         if (!oneMatchingRootOnly)         {             while (urls.hasMoreElements())                 resources.addAll(getVFSResources(urls.nextElement(), subPattern, pathMatcher));         } else         {             resources.addAll(getVFSResources(classLoader.getResource(rootDirPath), subPattern, pathMatcher));         }         return resources.toArray(new Resource[resources.size()]); This getVFSResources(urls.nextElement(), subPattern, pathMatcher) returned null which later through the exception when accessing the URL -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/615850#615850] Start a new discussion in Snowdrop at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]