[MTOMCAT-103] Executable War fails to run with a NullPointerException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-beta-1
• Component/s: tomcat7
• Environment: Mac OSX (tried on windows 7 as well)
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Keith Corbin
• Created: 27/Oct/11 14:50
• Updated: 01/Nov/11 18:46
• Resolved: 01/Nov/11 18:12

Description

Running the package goal with maven with the tomcat7 plugin configured the generated executable war fails to run. The error is:

$ java -jar ./smapi-1.0-war-exec.jar -debug
populateWebAppWarPerContext warValue:/smapi-1.0.war|/smapi-1.0
populateWebAppWarPerContext contextValue/warFileName:/smapi-1.0//smapi-1.0.war
webappWarPerContext entry key/value: /smapi-1.0//smapi-1.0.war
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.tomcat.maven.runner.Tomcat7Runner.expand(Tomcat7Runner.java:406)
at org.apache.tomcat.maven.runner.Tomcat7Runner.extract(Tomcat7Runner.java:309)
at org.apache.tomcat.maven.runner.Tomcat7Runner.run(Tomcat7Runner.java:98)
at org.apache.tomcat.maven.runner.Tomcat7RunnerCli.main(Tomcat7RunnerCli.java:144)