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From: David Jencks <david_jencks@yahoo.com>
To: user@geronimo.apache.org
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Subject: Re: NPE on Deployment
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:02:33 -0700
References: <48EA60E1.1010602@johndubchak.com>


On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:02 PM, John wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to deploy an ear file to Geronimo 2.1.3.  The ear  
> contains a number of dependency jar files, a war, an ejb and the  
> associated descriptors, or so I think.
>
> However, when I attempt to deploy through the admin console, I am  
> getting the following exception:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> org.apache.geronimo.common.DeploymentException:  
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>   at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:275)
>   at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:133)
>   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>   at  
> sun 
> .reflect 
> .NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>   at  
> sun 
> .reflect 
> .DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl 
> .invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .gbean 
> .runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java: 
> 34)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:124)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:867)
>   at  
> org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java: 
> 239)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .deployment 
> .plugin 
> .local.AbstractDeployCommand.doDeploy(AbstractDeployCommand.java:116)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .deployment 
> .plugin.local.DistributeCommand.run(DistributeCommand.java:61)
>   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .connector 
> .deployment.ResourceRefBuilder.buildNaming(ResourceRefBuilder.java: 
> 127)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .j2ee 
> .deployment 
> .NamingBuilderCollection.buildNaming(NamingBuilderCollection.java:53)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .openejb 
> .deployment.EjbDeploymentBuilder.addEnc(EjbDeploymentBuilder.java:321)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .openejb 
> .deployment.EjbDeploymentBuilder.buildEnc(EjbDeploymentBuilder.java: 
> 292)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .openejb.deployment.EjbModuleBuilder.addGBeans(EjbModuleBuilder.java: 
> 764)
>   at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .geronimo 
> .j2ee 
> .deployment 
> .EARConfigBuilder.buildConfiguration(EARConfigBuilder.java:647)
>   at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:254)
>   ... 12 more
>
> My question is, can anyone give me some ideas on how to track down a  
> vague, non-descript, error such as this?

What I do is look at the source code.

Googling ResourceRefBuilder yields a commit email which leads to e.g.
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/geronimo/server/trunk/plugins/connector/geronimo-connector-builder/src/main/java/org/apache/geronimo/connector/deployment/ResourceRefBuilder.java?annotate=651684

Modifying this to the 2.1.3 branch yields
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/geronimo/server/tags/2.1.3/plugins/connector/geronimo-connector-builder/src/main/java/org/apache/geronimo/connector/deployment/ResourceRefBuilder.java?annotate=651684

which despite the wrong rev id seems to show the correct source.

  Line 127 is

	 String type = resourceRef.getResType().getStringValue().trim();

which makes me guess that you've left out the res-type from your  
resource-ref.

May not be completely ideal but this process usually works for me.

thanks
david jencks

>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John