latest seam from CVS (CR3) & TestNG problems

[mmarcom]

hello all,
i know this partially OT since i am using Maven2 to compile my code..
i have recently moved from jboss-seamCR2 to CR3 and while running tests (together with testNG) i am getting a huge exception..
I dont' know if this is a testng/seam/maven problems but only file changed was jboss-seam.. i was wondering if someone has find same situation already...

here's my pom.xml

<project>
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
 <artifactId>ejbs</artifactId>
 <packaging>jar</packaging>
 <version>1.0</version>
 <name>enterprise java beans</name>
 <parent>
 <groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
 <artifactId>project</artifactId>
 <version>1.0</version>
 </parent>
 <dependencies>
 <!-- JBoss Microcontainer dependencies (for tests)-->
 <dependency>
 <groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
 <artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
 <version>alpha6</version>
 <scope>system</scope>
 <systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\optional-lib\ehcache-alpha6.jar</systemPath>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
 <artifactId>hibernate-all</artifactId>
 <version>alpha6</version>
 <scope>system</scope>
 <systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\lib\hibernate-all-alpha6.jar</systemPath>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-ejb3-all</artifactId>
 <version>alpha6</version>
 <scope>system</scope>
 <systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\lib\jboss-ejb3-all-alpha6.jar</systemPath>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
 <artifactId>thirdparty-all</artifactId>
 <version>alpha6</version>
 <scope>system</scope>
 <systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\lib\thirdparty-all-alpha6.jar</systemPath>
 </dependency>
<!-- end of jboss microcontainer dependencies -->


 <dependency>
 <groupId>geronimo-spec</groupId>
 <artifactId>geronimo-spec-j2ee</artifactId>
 <scope>provided</scope>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>jboss-seam</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-seam-ui</artifactId>
 <version>1.0.0CR3</version>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>jboss-seam</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>
 <version>1.0.0CR3</version>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
 <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
 <version>4.7</version>
 <scope>test</scope>
 <classifier>jdk15</classifier>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>dbunit</groupId>
 <artifactId>dbunit</artifactId>
 <version>2.1</version>
 <scope>test</scope>
 </dependency>



 </dependencies>
 <build>
 <plugins>


 <plugin>
 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 <configuration>
 <encoding>iso-8859-1</encoding>
 </configuration>
 </plugin>




 <plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <configuration>
 <suiteXmlFiles>
 <suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
 </suiteXmlFiles>
 </configuration>
 </plugin>
 <plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
 </plugin>

 <plugin>
 <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
 <executions>
 <execution>
 <phase>generate-sources</phase>
 <configuration>
 <tasks>
 <echo message="--------Properties Configured ----------"/>

 <echo message="------- deploy.dir=${deploy.directory}"/>
 <echo message="------- ear.name=${ear.name}"/>
 <echo message="------- project.parent.version=${project.parent.version}"/>
 <echo message="------- project.version=${project.version}"/>

 </tasks>
 </configuration>
 <goals>
 <goal>run</goal>
 </goals>
 </execution>
 </executions>
 </plugin>
 <plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
 <configuration>
 <archive>
 <manifest>
 <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
 </manifest>
 </archive>
 </configuration>
 </plugin>
 </plugins>
 </build>
 <!--<reporting>
 <plugins>
 <plugin>
 <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
 <configuration>
 <forkMode>once</forkMode>
 <childDelegation>false</childDelegation>
 </configuration>
 </plugin>
 </plugins>
 </reporting>-->
 <!-- The following two sections should be unnecessary shortly.
 surefire-2.2 is due for release yesterday. -->
 <repositories>
 <repository>
 <id>apache.snapshots</id>
 <url>http://cvs.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
 <snapshots>
 <enabled>true</enabled>
 </snapshots>
 </repository>
 </repositories>
 <pluginRepositories>
 <pluginRepository>
 <id>apache.snapshots</id>
 <url>http://cvs.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
 <snapshots>
 <enabled>true</enabled>
 </snapshots>
 </pluginRepository>
 </pluginRepositories>

</project>

and this is teh excepiton that i am receiving

org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireExecutionException: null; nested except
ion is java.lang.NullPointerException: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.AbstractTextReporter.testFailed(Abst
ractTextReporter.java:106)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterM
anager.java:299)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterM
anager.java:281)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGReporter.onTestFailure(TestNGR
eporter.java:97)
 at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1138)
 at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1123)
 at org.testng.internal.Invoker.handleConfigurationFailure(Invoker.java:1
87)
 at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:166)
 at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:216)
 at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:146)
 at org.testng.TestNG.createAndRunSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:713)
 at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:676)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.executeTestNG(TestNGE
xecutor.java:64)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGXmlTestSuite.execute(TestNGXml
TestSuite.java:75)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:129)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(Su
refireBooter.java:220)
 at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.j
ava:733)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

anyone could help? i tried already maven&testng lists with no luck :(

rgds
marco