I have created a simple ejb that counts as a Stateful Session Bean. The Bean is being clustered between two boxes. The server is "all" which was created when you install 4.0.3SP1 from the jnlp. We changed the "all" to have a different multicast port and farm deploy.

Everything works fine until I update the code and redeploy without stopping and starting jboss. Once we redeploy, I start getting this message repeated every ~1 seconds:

11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] java.lang.NullPointerException
11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.ejb3.cache.tree.StatefulEvictionPolicy.evict(StatefulEvictionPolicy.java:33)
11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.cache.eviction.LRUAlgorithm.evictCacheNode(LRUAlgorithm.java:196)
11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.cache.eviction.LRUAlgorithm.prune(LRUAlgorithm.java:271)

11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.cache.eviction.LRUAlgorithm.process(LRUAlgorithm.java:54)
11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.cache.eviction.EvictionTimerTask.run(EvictionTimerTask.java:37)
11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
11:20:17,679 INFO [STDOUT] at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)


I have included all the code below.

Receiver.java

package agms.ejb3;

import javax.ejb.Remote;

@Remote
public interface Receiver {

 public int increment(int byValue);

 public void show(String message);

}

ReceiverBean.java

package agms.ejb3;

import org.jboss.annotation.ejb.Clustered;

import javax.ejb.*;
import java.io.Serializable;

@Stateful
@Clustered
public class ReceiverBean implements Receiver, Serializable {

 private int count;


 public int increment(int byValue) {
 count += byValue;
 return count;
 }

 public void show(String message) {
 System.out.println(message);
 }
}

The remote connecting code was compiled off of the same .class files that were deployed. To run the code I have included these jars in the classpath:
jboss-4.0.3SP1\client\jbossall-client.jar
jboss-4.0.3SP1\server\all\deploy\ejb3.deployer\jboss-ejb3.jar
jboss-4.0.3SP1\server\all\deploy\ejb3.deployer\jboss-ejb3x.jar
jboss-4.0.3SP1\server\all\deploy\jboss-aop.deployer\jboss-aspect-library-jdk50.jar

Sender.java

package agms.sender;

import agms.ejb3.Receiver;

import javax.naming.InitialContext;

public class Sender {
 SecurityManager security = System.getSecurityManager();

 static public void main(String[] args) {
 try {

 InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
 Receiver r = (Receiver) ctx.lookup(
 Receiver.class.getName());

 long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
 int value = r.increment(1);
 while (value < 10000) {
 value = r.increment(1);
 }

 String message = "Total time = " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - time);
 System.out.println(message);
 r.show(message);

 } catch (Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace ();
 }
 }
}