With JBoss 3.04 I've transformed a working ear to one that fails to deploy. I get a null pointer exception from EJBDeployer.create. Is there any stand-alone verfication process I could try (similar to, but hopefully better than Sun's verifier)?
Any suggestion as to what I've messed up?
INFO [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/C:/jboss/server/default/deploy/grumpy.ear
ERROR [URLDeploymentScanner] Failed to deploy: org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner$DeployedUR
L@5d9a4d9e{ url=file:/C:/jboss/server/default/deploy/grumpy.ear, deployedLastModified=1038004872750 }
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Failed to load metadata; - nested throwable: (java.lang.NullPointerException)
at org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.create(EJBDeployer.java:326)
