Hello Pinaki/Patrick, I am having following two classes
@Entity @Table(name = "LOG_DB2") public class B extends A { @Column(name = "INSTANCE_NAME") private String instanceName; @Column(name = "DB2_TIMESTAMP") private Timestamp db2Timestamp; @Column(name = "DB_ALIAS") private String dbAlias; @Column(name = "DB_PARTITION") private int partitionNum; @Entity @Table(name = "LOG_DB2") @MappedSuperclass public class A { @Column(name = "LOG_ID") @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY) private Long id; @Column(name = "TAG") private String tag; @Column(name = "SUBTAG") private String subtag; I am able to store the data into database successfully where as I am facing the problem while retriveing the data from the database, the following is the code and highlighted the problem area in the code em=ServiceLocator.getOpenJPASession("pu1"); em.getTransaction().begin(); Query q = em.createQuery("select ad from B ad"); for (B l : (List<B>)q.getResultList()) { System.out.println("Host Name is : "+l.getHostName()+" Instance Name is "+l.getInstanceName()); em.remove(l); } em.getTransaction().commit(); The following error occurs <0.9.7-incubating nonfatal general error> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceException: null at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.find(BrokerImpl.java:857) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.find(BrokerImpl.java:756) at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStoreManager.load(JDBCStoreManager.java:776) at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.AbstractResult.load(AbstractResult.java:257) at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SelectImpl$SelectResult.load(SelectImpl.java:2152) at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.AbstractResult.load(AbstractResult.java:251) at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.InstanceResultObjectProvider.getResultObject(InstanceResultObjectProvider.java:59) at org.apache.openjpa.lib.rop.EagerResultList.<init>(EagerResultList.java:36) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.toResult(QueryImpl.java:1219) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.execute(QueryImpl.java:987) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.execute(QueryImpl.java:796) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.execute(QueryImpl.java:766) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.execute(QueryImpl.java:762) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingQuery.execute(DelegatingQuery.java:517) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.QueryImpl.execute(QueryImpl.java:230) at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.QueryImpl.getResultList(QueryImpl.java:269) at com.server.dao.audit.hibernate.AuditDAOImpl.purgeDebugMessages(AuditDAOImpl.java:196) at com.server.messageanalyzer.MessageAnalyzerManager.purgeDebugMessages(MessageAnalyzerManager.java:113) at com.server.mgmt.ConsoleManagement.purgeDebugMessages(ConsoleManagement.java:675) at com.server.mgmt.console.log.LogAnalyzerAction.execute(LogAnalyzerAction.java:217) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:432) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at com.server.mgmt.console.access.AuthorizationFilter.doFilter(AuthorizationFilter.java:70) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:74) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:803) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.findClass(RepositoryClassLoader.java:620) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:602) at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClassImpl(RepositoryClassLoader.java:464) at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClass(RepositoryClassLoader.java:405) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:568) at com.server.dao.audit.A.pcCopyKeyFieldsFromObjectId(A.java) at com.server.dao.audit.B.pcNewInstance(B.java) at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCRegistry.newInstance(PCRegistry.java:121) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.StateManagerImpl.initialize(StateManagerImpl.java:250) at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStoreManager.initializeState(JDBCStoreManager.java:330) at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStoreManager.initialize(JDBCStoreManager.java:255) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingStoreManager.initialize(DelegatingStoreManager.java:111) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.ROPStoreManager.initialize(ROPStoreManager.java:57) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.initialize(BrokerImpl.java:876) at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.find(BrokerImpl.java:834) Please help me to resolve the above problem as soon as possible. Thanks, Praveen Kumar.