Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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3.1.4
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None
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- Apache TomEE (Tomcat 6.0.29 / OpenEJB 3.1.4)
- Snapshot apache-tomee-4.0.0-20110825.075723-21
Description
When deploying an EAR (containing web modules) I get the following Exception:
org.apache.openejb.OpenEJBException: Creating application failed: /home/wfro/temp/apache-tomcat-6.0.29/apps/opencrx-core-CRX: null
at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:679)
at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:450)
at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.buildContainerSystem(Assembler.java:368)
at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.build(Assembler.java:280)
at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB$Instance.<init>(OpenEJB.java:125)
at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB.init(OpenEJB.java:271)
at org.apache.openejb.tomcat.catalina.TomcatLoader.init(TomcatLoader.java:161)
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:597)
at org.apache.openejb.loader.Embedder.init(Embedder.java:75)
at org.apache.openejb.tomcat.loader.TomcatHook.hook(TomcatHook.java:137)
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:597)
at org.apache.openejb.tomcat.loader.TomcatEmbedder.embed(TomcatEmbedder.java:92)
at org.apache.openejb.tomcat.loader.OpenEJBListener.lifecycleEvent(OpenEJBListener.java:64)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:770)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:524)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:548)
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:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:261)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.manageApp(HostConfig.java:1389)
at org.apache.openejb.tomcat.catalina.TomcatWebAppBuilder.deployWebApps(TomcatWebAppBuilder.java:188)
at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:658)
... 28 more
Debugging shows that the reason is in the constructor of TomcatWebAppBuilder. I can fix the NullPointer if I patch the constructor as follows:
OLD:
for (LifecycleListener listener : host.findLifecycleListeners()) { if (listener instanceof HostConfig) { HostConfig hostConfig = (HostConfig) listener; deployers.put(host.getName(), hostConfig); } }
NEW:
if (listener instanceof HostConfig) { HostConfig hostConfig = (HostConfig) listener; if(hostConfig.getConfigBaseName() != null) { deployers.put(host.getName(), hostConfig); } }
In some cases the method getConfigBaseName() returns null (I suppose in the cases when the context.xml is put in the web module META-INF and not in conf/Catalina/localhost).
Adding a hostConfig to the deployers map with hostConfig.getConfigBaseName() == null results in the reported NPE in org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.manageApp.