[rules-users] Loading external KieModule fails with NullPointerException

Hello, I am trying to set up a simple Drools (6.0.1.Final) application that pulls a kmodule from an external jar that is installed in the local Maven repository. Unfortunately when my code executes the newKieContainer method it crashes with a NullPointerException. Here is my code... KieServices kieServices = KieServices.Factory.get(); ReleaseId releaseId = kieServices.newReleaseId("com.mycompany", "mymodule", "1.0-SNAPSHOT"); KieContainer kContainer = kieServices.newKieContainer(releaseId); And here is the output I get... [pool-1-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-3-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-5-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-7-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-9-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-11-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-13-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-15-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 [pool-17-thread-1] INFO com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyAsyncHttpProvider - Number of application's worked threads is 16 Disconnected from the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:51890', transport: 'socket' Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.addDependencies(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:128) at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.buildArtifact(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:119) at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.loadArtifact(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:90) at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.loadArtifact(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:83) at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl.loadKieModuleFromMavenRepo(KieRepositoryImpl.java:113) at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl.getKieModule(KieRepositoryImpl.java:99) at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl.getKieModule(KieRepositoryImpl.java:76) at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieServicesImpl.newKieContainer(KieServicesImpl.java:84) The module has the following dependencies listed in the pom.xml. <dependencies> <!-- Drools --> <dependency> <groupId>org.drools</groupId> <artifactId>drools-core</artifactId> <version>${drools.version}</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.drools</groupId> <artifactId>drools-compiler</artifactId> <version>${drools.version}</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.drools</groupId> <artifactId>drools-decisiontables</artifactId> <version>${drools.version}</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.drools</groupId> <artifactId>drools-persistence-jpa</artifactId> <version>${drools.version}</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <!-- Misc --> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <version>1.7.6</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> I have tried searching for help on this but am unable to find anything related. Any help here is appreciated. Thanks! Jean-Philippe Steinmetz