Hi

Looks quite weird

I have an SFSB (AppManager) which talks to an Entity bean (DescriptorCMP) through a SLSB (Registry).

Each Descriptor has a field called 'lock' to implement
application-level locking of descriptors stored in the
DB. Registry SLSB is used to manage loading/storing/locking of descriptors

When AppManager is created in ejbCreate() I obtain
a 'lock' on a specific descriptor. I do my work by calling business methods of the AppManager from a regular java client. Then I want to remove the AppManager and call its remove() method.

In ejbRemove() it calls the Registry to unlock the descriptor that it locked in ejbCreate(). The call successfully is invoked on the Registry and then on the underlying DescriptorCMP (I log the calls) somewhere right before returning it throws an NPE from the Proxy:

[Default] java.lang.NullPointerException
[Default] at $Proxy172.releaseAppLock(Unknown Source)
[Default] at test.deployment.config.ejb.AppManagerBean.ejbRemove(Unknown S
ource)
[Default] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
[Default] at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.r
emoveSession(StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.java:327)
[Default] at org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer.remove(StatefulSession
Container.java:367)
[Default] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
[Default] at org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer$ContainerInterceptor.i
nvoke(StatefulSessionContainer.java:673)
[Default] at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor.invoke(SecurityInte
rceptor.java:129)

I am using JBoss 2.5 snapshot