This problem occurs when <inverse-classloading> is set in a web application. I've raised a JIRA here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3233 Aman Nanner/MxI Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06-08-2007 02:10:17 PM: > I tried deploying a small test.ear application, but I did not experience > this problem with it. It seems my main EAR application and this test EAR > application use different instances of the "SystemInstance" singleton (e.g. > there are two singletons). Presumably this is because each application's > classloader loads a version of SystemInstance. It seems that my test EAR > application's SystemInstance is full of "components" in the HashMap of > components, but my main EAR application's SystemInstance has no components > in its HashMap, which eventually results in the NullPointerException > described below. > > I'll try to investigate more, but would anybody happen to know why this > would happen? > > Thanks, > Aman > > Aman Nanner/MxI Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06-07-2007 > 03:55:57 PM: > > > > > I'm deploying a J2EE 1.4 application on Apache Geronimo 2.0-SNAPSHOT. > This > > application is not up to JEE 5 standards yet (i.e. it uses deployment > > descriptors instead of annotations). I am getting some errors during the > > resolution of EJB references. I have my EJB references defined in the > > ejb-jar.xml, but I'm getting a strange error during execution: > > > > 15:46:49,877 WARN [EjbFactory] Unable to lookup up EJB by reference name > > 'ejb/common/SequenceGenerator'; you must define the EJB reference > > javax.naming.NamingException: Could not look up : > > ejb/common/SequenceGenerator [Root exception is > > java.lang.NullPointerException] > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.ContextUtil.resolve( > > ContextUtil.java:65) > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.AbstractContext.lookup( > > AbstractContext.java:112) > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.AbstractContext.lookup( > > AbstractContext.java:611) > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.AbstractContext.lookup( > > AbstractContext.java:152) > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.AbstractContext.lookup( > > AbstractContext.java:611) > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.AbstractContext.lookup( > > AbstractContext.java:152) > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.AbstractContext.lookup( > > AbstractContext.java:597) > > at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351) > > ..... > > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke( > > StandardEngineValve.java:109) > > at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke( > > AccessLogValve.java:563) > > at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service( > > CoyoteAdapter.java:261) > > at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process( > > Http11Processor.java:844) > > at > > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process( > > Http11Protocol.java:581) > > at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run( > > JIoEndpoint.java:447) > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) > > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > > at > org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.naming.IntraVmJndiReference.getObject( > > IntraVmJndiReference.java:38) > > at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.naming.Reference.getContent( > > Reference.java:40) > > at org.apache.xbean.naming.context.ContextUtil.resolve( > > ContextUtil.java:61) > > ... 50 more > > > > > > It seems that the "containerSystem" variable in IntraVmJndiReference is > > null. Does anybody know if this is an incomplete feature, or what the > > problem could be? > > > > Thanks, > > Aman > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________________ > > > * This message is intended only for the use of the individual or > > entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is > > privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable > > law. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the > > addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose the message or any > > information contained in the message. 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