Heh it is rather interesting. its an EJB-QL error. (Well in that module) Just to go over the testing I have done so far:

jar 1: CMP Entity Beans only - this was in the original ear. (1-1 relationship unidirectional)

jar 2: CMP Entity beans (1-many relationship unidrectional)

jar3: a combination of jar1 and jar2.

Ear: normally - War,
EJBjars (cmp1.1 and session)
jar1.

This way it deploys.

it also deploys with war, ejbjars, and jar2.

if I do either war, ejbjars, jar1, jar2, or war, ejbjars, jar3. I get the following NullPointer. (note jar1 has finders with EJBQL, jar2 only has findbyprimarykey finder.

[2001-11-16 19:03:59,020,ContainerFactory,ERROR] Could not deploy file:/C:/jboss-3.0.0alpha/deploy/Default/multideployer.ear/
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.ejbql.SQLTarget.(SQLTarget.java:75)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCEJBQLFinderCommand.(JDBCEJBQLFinderCommand.java:50)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCCommandFactory.createEJBQLFinderCommand(JDBCCommandFactory.java:99)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCFindEntitiesCommand.start(JDBCFindEntitiesCommand.java:123)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.start(JDBCStoreManager.java:139)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CMPPersistenceManager.start(CMPPersistenceManager.java:186)
at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.start(EntityContainer.java:404)
at org.jboss.ejb.Application.start(Application.java:200)
at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:381)
at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:307)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.startModules(J2eeDeployer.java:467)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.startApplication(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:343)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.deploy(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:296)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.deploy(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:246)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.deploy(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:233)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:654)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:327)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
[2001-11-16 19:03:59,030,ServiceController,DEBUG] undeploying J2EE:service=EJB,jndiName=News from server
[2001-11-16 19:03:59,030,ServiceController,DEBUG] undeploying J2EE:service=EJB,jndiName=Registration from server
[2001-11-16 19:03:59,030,ServiceController,DEBUG] undeploying J2EE:service=EJB,jndiName=Demographics from server
[2001-11-16 19:03:59,030,ServiceController,DEBUG] undeploying J2EE:service=EJB,jndiName=userActions from server
[2001-11-16 19:03:59,030,ServiceController,DEBUG] undeploying J2EE:service=EJB,jndiName=Users from server
[2001-11-16 19:03:59,040,J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer#Default,ERROR] Starting multideployer.ear failed!
javax.management.RuntimeMBeanException: RuntimeException thrown in operation deploy
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1640)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.startModules(J2eeDeployer.java:467)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.startApplication(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:343)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.deploy(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:296)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.deploy(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:246)
at org.jboss.deployment.scope.J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.deploy(J2eeGlobalScopeDeployer.java:233)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:654)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:327)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Al

update:

Just for giggles I decided to try wrapping the call in SQLTarget (line 75) in a try catch block. and the beans all deploy fine. I havent been able to back trace where the root of this is yet... But it seems to happen whenever there are more than one ejb-relationships present.

Al