java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.ClassLoaderWeavingAdaptor.parseDefinitions(ClassLoaderWeavingAdaptor.java:251)

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.DefaultWeavingContext.getDefinitions(DefaultWeavingContext.java:130)

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.ClassLoaderWeavingAdaptor.initialize(ClassLoaderWeavingAdaptor.java:161)

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.Aj$ExplicitlyInitializedClassLoaderWeavingAdaptor.initialize(Aj.java:271)

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.Aj$ExplicitlyInitializedClassLoaderWeavingAdaptor.getWeavingAdaptor(Aj.java:276)

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.Aj$WeaverContainer.getWeaver(Aj.java:254)

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.Aj.preProcess(Aj.java:90)

at org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.ClassPreProcessorAgentAdapter.transform(ClassPreProcessorAgentAdapter.java:54)

at sun.instrument.TransformerManager.transform(TransformerManager.java:169)

at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.transform(InstrumentationImpl.java:365)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)

at org.drools.rule.JavaDialectRuntimeData$PackageClassLoader.fastFindClass(JavaDialectRuntimeData.java:570)

at org.drools.util.CompositeClassLoader$CachingLoader.load(CompositeClassLoader.java:258)

at org.drools.util.CompositeClassLoader$CachingLoader.load(CompositeClassLoader.java:241)

at org.drools.util.CompositeClassLoader.loadClass(CompositeClassLoader.java:88)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)

at org.drools.rule.JavaDialectRuntimeData.wire(JavaDialectRuntimeData.java:405)

at org.drools.rule.JavaDialectRuntimeData.wire(JavaDialectRuntimeData.java:396)

at org.drools.rule.JavaDialectRuntimeData.onBeforeExecute(JavaDialectRuntimeData.java:237)

at org.drools.rule.DialectRuntimeRegistry.onBeforeExecute(DialectRuntimeRegistry.java:132)

at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.reloadAll(PackageBuilder.java:796)

at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackage(PackageBuilder.java:751)

at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackageFromDrl(PackageBuilder.java:360)

at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addKnowledgeResource(PackageBuilder.java:538)

at org.drools.builder.impl.KnowledgeBuilderImpl.add(KnowledgeBuilderImpl.java:28)

at au.com.promedicus.rules.KnowledgeBaseBuilder.addPackagesFromList(KnowledgeBaseBuilder.java:108)

at au.com.promedicus.rules.KnowledgeBaseBuilder.build(KnowledgeBaseBuilder.java:69)

at au.com.promedicus.rules.KnowledgeBaseBuilder.build(KnowledgeBaseBuilder.java:54)

I have traced the problem to�org.drools.rule.JavaDialectRuntimeData$PackageClassLoader.getResources. This returns null whereas AspectJ expects it to at least return an empty enumeration - hence the NPE. Interestingly the problem does not occur when running our server, however we can't upgrade unless our unit tests pass and we can't easily turn off aspectj for these.

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