hiho,

I recently added a Message-Driven Bean to my application whiche created new entities upon receiving a message. The Entity was in a security domain and required the role of InternalRole to be accessed. I always got an Authenticaion Error: principal=null. But I thought that was the way it's supposed to be with MDBs. The Message-Driven Bean had a security-identy run-as InternalRole, so I didn't know what was wrong. At that time, my jboss.xml did not have any containers, everything was in the same security domain. So I removed everything from the security domain and my application worked well. But I wanted the security back. I thought it would be ok if that one entity bean was not secure as it only has local interfaces, so I decided to make up different containers in the jboss.xml configuration and put some beans in a security context and some not. But since this change, the jboss verifier always gives me following exception:
[echo] Calling JBoss verifier ...
[java] Problem starting the application:
[java] Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
[java] Message: null
[java] java.lang.NullPointerException
[java] at org.jboss.metadata.ConfigurationMetaData.importJbossXml(ConfigurationMetaData.java:266)
[java] at org.jboss.metadata.ApplicationMetaData.importJbossXml(ApplicationMetaData.java:492)
[java] at org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader.load(XmlFileLoader.java:184)
[java] at org.jboss.verifier.Main.main(Main.java:79)
[java] Java Result: -1

Is there any way how I can get a more detailed description of the error?

I know these are two different problems, but maybe somebody can help me with one of them.

First question is: How can I access beans that require a certain role from a message-driven bean? (I tried run-as. It doesn't work)

Second question is: Is there a general problem with beans in different containers in jboss.xml that causes above exception? How do i know what is wrong with my jboss.xml? My jboss.xml complies to the DTD, no error there.

thanks in advance,
Esaah