[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (AS7-1551) NullPointerException thrown by BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor when deploying a Grails application

[John Paul Alcala (JIRA)]

NullPointerException thrown by BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor when deploying a Grails application
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                 Key: AS7-1551
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1551
             Project: Application Server 7
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 7.0.0.Final
         Environment: Mac OS X 10.7, Java 1.6.0_26
            Reporter: John Paul Alcala


I have a Grails 1.3.7 application running fine on JBoss AS 5.1.0 and JBoss AS 6. However, when I attempted to deploy the same application on AS7 in standalone mode, I got the following error:

{code}
23:46:46,560 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) Starting deployment of "example.war"
23:46:50,740 WARN  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.service-loader] (MSC service thread 1-2) Encountered invalid class name "org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser,org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer" for service type "org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory"
23:46:50,814 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-1) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "example.war"
	at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.deploy(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:72)
	at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.example.warDeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115)
	... 5 more

23:46:50,818 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Deployment of "example.war" was rolled back with failure message {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}}
23:46:50,819 INFO  [org.jboss.as.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Service status report
  Services which failed to start:
      service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "example.war"

23:46:50,827 ERROR [org.jboss.as.deployment] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) {"Composite operation failed and was rolled back. Steps that failed:" => {"Operation step-2" => {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}}}}
23:46:51,015 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-2) Stopped deployment example.war in 193ms
{code}

Seeing that the deployer was complaining about not being able to see org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser and org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer, I excluded the xpp3 jar included in the WAR and performed another deployment. Here is the resulting log:

{code}
23:50:51,009 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-4) Starting deployment of "example.war"
23:50:54,506 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "example.war"
	at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.deploy(BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor.java:72)
	at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115)
	... 5 more

23:50:54,508 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) Deployment of "example.war" was rolled back with failure message {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}}
23:50:54,658 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-3) Stopped deployment example.war in 150ms
23:50:54,660 ERROR [org.jboss.as.deployment] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) {"Composite operation failed and was rolled back. Steps that failed:" => {"Operation step-2" => {"Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"example.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment \"example.war\""}}}}
{code}

As seen from the two error logs, a NullPointerException is being thrown by BusinessViewAnnotationProcessor at the same line number (72).

I have tried excluding other jars, to no avail. I even tried deleting all the jars inside WEB-INF/lib in the hope of getting a different error (and to get a clue as to what's going on), but I still get the same result.

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