[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Resolved: (JBIDE-7179) Projects with references to other projects created by m2eclipse fail to publish with NPE

Projects with references to other projects created by m2eclipse fail to publish with NPE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-7179 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7179 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Bug Components: deltacloud, JBossAS Affects Versions: 3.2.0.M2 Reporter: Pete Muir Assignee: Rob Stryker Priority: Critical Fix For: 3.2.0.Beta2 If I import a war using m2eclipse that refers to another project (which builds as a JAR) as a project reference, then I get this NPE when I try to deploy using deltacloud tools: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:262) at org.eclipse.rse.internal.services.local.files.LocalFileService.createFolder(LocalFileService.java:993) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:70) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.rse.core.RSERemotePublishHandler.makeDirectoryIfRequired(RSERemotePublishHandler.java:65) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core.publishers.AbstractServerToolsPublisher.fullPublish(AbstractServerToolsPublisher.java:188) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core.publishers.AbstractServerToolsPublisher.publishModule(AbstractServerToolsPublisher.java:93) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core.publishers.AbstractPublishMethod.publishModule(AbstractPublishMethod.java:77) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core.server.internal.DeployableServerBehavior.publishModule(DeployableServerBehavior.java:67) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.publishModule(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:1025) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.publishModules(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:1115) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.publish(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:948) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.publish(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:775) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.publishImpl(Server.java:2889) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server$PublishJob.run(Server.java:337) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54) If I switch this to a normal jar dep, then the NPE goes away and the project deploys successfully.