Failed to deploy the war file. Starup failed with nulpointer exception
I am new to JBOSS AS hosting , could somebody please help me to resolve this issue. The log generated by the application server is given below.
07:39:43,138 WARN [org.jboss.as.messaging] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS011600: AIO wasn't located on this platform, it will fall back to using pure Java NIO. If your platform is Linux, install LibAIO to enable the AIO journal
07:39:48,622 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."tester-http-ws-1.0.1.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."tester-http-ws-1.0.1.war".PARSE: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "tester-http-ws-1.0.1.war"
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:119) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebParsingDeploymentProcessor.deploy(WebParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:114)
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:113) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]
... 5 more
07:39:48,685 ERROR [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS015875: JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" started (with errors) in 32203ms - Started 152 of 231 services (1 services failed or missing dependencies, 77 services are passive or on-demand)
07:39:48,747 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) {"JBAS014653: Composite operation failed and was rolled back. Steps that failed:" => {"Operation step-2" => {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"tester-http-ws-1.0.1.war\".PARSE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"tester-http-ws-1.0.1.war\".PARSE: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment \"tester-http-ws-1.0.1.war\""}}}}
