Hi there,
I just switched to seam 1.1.0 beta1 and started getting the following error messages when deploying my ear:
17:09:19,390 ERROR [[/foo]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.FilterInputStream.close(FilterInputStream.java:159) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.getClassFile(Scanner.java:175) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.handleItem(Scanner.java:143) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.handleDirectory(Scanner.java:131) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.handleDirectory(Scanner.java:127) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.handleDirectory(Scanner.java:127) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.handleDirectory(Scanner.java:127) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.handleDirectory(Scanner.java:127) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.handleDirectory(Scanner.java:127) at org.jboss.seam.deployment.Scanner.getClasses(Scanner.java:90) at org.jboss.seam.init.Initialization.addComponents(Initialization.java:500)
I suggest you add this to the Seam Problems FAQ