NullPointerException in InvalidableEntityInstanceCache

[chrisxsb]

While attempting to deploy an application in 4.0 that worked fine on 3.2.5, I received a NullPointerException during the deployment of some of the components of this app.

I have searched the forums, and googled around and haven't found any hints....Here is the relevant portion of my system log:

...
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EjbModule] startService, starting container: XPDLPackage
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] starting service jboss.j2ee:jndiName=org/obe/PackageLocal,service=EJB
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Starting jboss.j2ee:jndiName=org/obe/PackageLocal,service=EJB
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Begin java:comp/env for EJB: XPDLPackage
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] TCL: org.jboss.util.loading.DelegatingClassLoader@4f33c1
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Bound java:comp/ORB for EJB: XPDLPackage
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Bound java:comp:/HandleDelegate for EJB: XPDLPackage
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Binding an EJBLocalReference ejb/ProcessDefinition
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Binding ejb/ProcessDefinition to bean source: ProcessDefinition
2004-09-21 11:24:17,101 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Binding resource manager: jdbc/TxDataSource to JDNI ENC as: java:/MySQLDS
2004-09-21 11:24:17,117 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] End java:comp/env for EJB: XPDLPackage
2004-09-21 11:24:17,117 DEBUG [org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.local.LocalManagedConnectionFactory] Using properties: {user=obe, password=--hidden--}
2004-09-21 11:24:17,133 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.local.BaseLocalProxyFactory] Bound EJBLocalHome of XPDLPackage to org/obe/PackageLocal
2004-09-21 11:24:17,133 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractInstanceCache] Starting InvalidableEntityInstanceCache...
2004-09-21 11:24:17,133 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer] Starting failed jboss.j2ee:jndiName=org/obe/PackageLocal,service=EJB
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.InvalidableEntityInstanceCache.start(InvalidableEntityInstanceCache.java:107)
 at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.startService(EntityContainer.java:337)
...

It seems that it fails to find the InvalidationManagerMBean in the Registry. Here is the code where the NPE occurrs:

...
 this.invalMgr = (InvalidationManagerMBean) Registry.lookup(imName);
-->this.ig = this.invalMgr.getInvalidationGroup(groupName);
 this.ig.register(this);
 this.isTraceEnabled = log.isTraceEnabled();
 ...

Any clue what I've done wrong here?

Thanks in advance.

[chrisxsb]

Some more info -- the beans that are failing to deploy are CMP beans. The only ones that appear to be failing are those that have a configuration name specified:

...
 <configuration-name>Standard CMP 2.x EntityBean with cache invalidation</configuration-name>
 ...

There is a containter-configuration with a corresponding name:

...
 <container-configuration>
 <container-name>Standard CMP 2.x EntityBean with cache invalidation</container-name>
 ...

The others deploy cleanly (seemingly).

[aloubyansky]

The only way to reproduce I found is to remove the cache-invalidation-service.xml

[chrisxsb]

I just did a clean install -- I don't see a server/default/conf/cache-invalidation-service.xml
(but I *do* see a server/all/conf/cache-invalidation-service.xml)

[chrisxsb]

And I also see server/standard/conf/cache-invalidation-service.xml

[aloubyansky]

That is strange. I just built 3.2.5 release and the cache-invalidation-service.xml is in the server/default/deploy dir and not conf.

[chrisxsb]

Oops, I mis-typed.

The cache-invalidation-service.xml files are in all/deploy and i standard/deploy, but not in default/deploy.

This is on 4.0.0