NullPointerException thrown on cmp bean deployment

[poorboy]

Hi.

I've got a very simple bean made with MyEclipse, which is just a primary key and associated XDoclet generated objects. Nothing tricky going on at all. Deploying the bean results in a NullPointerException being thrown. Unfortunately there is no useful information aside from the line numbers reported, so I'm flying blind without a good knowledge of the JBoss source code. I'll hazard a guess and say it's probably a deployment descriptor error, but I could be wrong there - but if it was, wouldn't a deployment exception be thrown instead?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The error is posted below:

17:19:28,894 WARN [ServiceController] Problem starting service jboss.j2ee:jndiName=ejb/TelephoneNumberBeanHome,service=EJB
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.bridge.JDBCEntityBridge.loadLoadGroups(JDBCEntityBridge.java:977)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.bridge.JDBCEntityBridge.resolveRelationships(JDBCEntityBridge.java:290)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.resolveRelationships(JDBCStoreManager.java:445)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.start(JDBCStoreManager.java:379)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CMPPersistenceManager.start(CMPPersistenceManager.java:152)
at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.startService(EntityContainer.java:342)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:192)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor40.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java(Compiled Code))
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:976)
at $Proxy14.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:394)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java(Compiled Code))
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy59.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.ejb.EjbModule.startService(EjbModule.java:331)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:192)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor40.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java(Compiled Code))
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:976)
at $Proxy14.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:394)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java(Compiled Code))
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy12.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.start(EJBDeployer.java:544)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:832)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:642)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor34.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java(Compiled Code))
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy6.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:302)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java(Compiled Code))
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:201)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:212)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:191)

[poorboy]

Oh, and it's JBoss 3.2.3 I'm using, with IBM 1.4.1 JVM, on Mandrake Linux 9.2.

[poorboy]

Replying to my own post....

No matter how tired you are, don't forget the extra * at the start of xdoclet comments. JBoss could use more meaningful error checking though - a Null Pointer Exception isn't much help...

[crusadah]

can you show me an example? i have the same problem, but i can't solve it