Since our system uses JBOSS3.2.3.To disable session persistence, we can create an entry of Manager element that sets the pathname to an empty value in
\jboss-3.2.3\server\default\deploy\jbossweb-tomcat41.sar\META-INF\jboss-service.xml.





but if we put the above mentioned entry then it throws NullPointerException for EmbeddedTomcatService.

snippet of log file is given below



17:49:16,890 ERROR [tc4.EmbeddedTomcatService] (main) Starting failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:389)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java:3338)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3474)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:363)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.start(Embedded.java:994)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc4.EmbeddedTomcatService.startService(EmbeddedTomcatService.java:273)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:192)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor17.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:976)
at $Proxy14.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:394)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor16.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:226)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:832)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:642)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy6.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:302)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:476)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:201)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.startService(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:192)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor17.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:976)
at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:394)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor16.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:226)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:832)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:642)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:589)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:384)
at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:291)
at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:150)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:395)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)