Re: Different Exception during deploy this time

[Doug Lochart]

I looked into the code where the exception is occuring and it seems to 
be choking (Null Pointer Exception) on the context.  Evidently the 
context is null.  I see there is a setContext() method on the 
TomcatWebAppContext.java class but do not know where it is called from.

I am focusing on the following part of the stack trace I recieved.
java.lang.NullPointerException
      at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:630)
      at 
org.apache.naming.resources.DirContextURLStreamHandler.bind(DirContextURLStreamHandler.java:233) 

      at 
org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.TomcatWebAppContext.doStart(TomcatWebAppContext.java:443) 

      at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.createInstance(GBeanInstance.java:981) 

   
Am I correct in thinking it is a null context OR that part of the 
context is null?  Any idea what would cause this?  I do NOT have a 
geronimo-web.xml in the WAR that is deployed with the ear.  This is the 
web.xml that is in the WAR.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; id="WebApp_ID" 
version="2.4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd";>
   <display-name>HTTP router for FrancePolicyServer_EJB.jar</display-name>
   <display-name>HTTP router for FrancePolicyServer_EJB.jar</display-name>
   <servlet>
       <display-name>Web services Router servlet for port-component 
FrancePolicyService</display-name>
       <display-name>Web services Router servlet for port-component 
FrancePolicyService</display-name>
       <servlet-name>FrancePolicyService</servlet-name>
       
<servlet-class>com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.transport.http.WebServicesServlet</servlet-class>
   </servlet>
   <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>FrancePolicyService</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>services/FrancePolicyService</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

see double instances for display-name and I am wondering could that be 
the cause of anything.  If so it should have choked during deployment 
and not at runtime. 

This is what was generated my the tool I have to use.  Believe it or not 
this is one of 3 xml files that make up the entire contents of the WAR.  
The WebServicesServlet class is in the jar that I installed as a common 
lib.  The other 2 xml docs are WAS 6.0 specific so should be ignored.  I 
may take David's advice and try to deploy again without the WAR but as 
of now the powers that be want to to try the whole shebang.  I have a 
feeling the servlet routing class will need the WAS files to route the 
service requests anyway.

Anybody know what might cause the NPE?  I will try and deploy without 
the WAR next

thanks

Doug



Doug Lochart wrote:
Anybody have any idea what might cause this exception?  Since the Ear 
deployed and it is trying to start I would assume it is something with 
the EAR however I find it odd that a root cause is a Null Pointer 
Exception.  Do any one of you developers know the area of code the NPE 
is occurring and what might be causing it?

thanks

Doug

Doug Lochart wrote:
I used the webconsole and added it to Common Libs.  It ended up 
creating a directory under the repository named dlochart (not sure 
where it got that from) and dropped the jar under the name I gave 
it.  I looked and I saw axis so i blindly followed and added this to 
my plan.

<sys:dependency>
    <sys:groupId>geronimo</sys:groupId>
    <sys:artifactId>sharedlib</sys:artifactId>
    <sys:type>car</sys:type>
 </sys:dependency>

I still received the same exception so I looked again and I saw there 
was an axis under geronimo which told me that I need to sdjust my 
dependency so I guessed it would need to be this:

<sys:dependency>
    <sys:groupId>dlochart</sys:groupId>
    <sys:artifactId>ibm-runtime</sys:artifactId>
    <sys:type>jar</sys:type>
 </sys:dependency>

Am I correct on this considering I have a jar under 
$geronimo_home/repositories/dlochart/ibm-runtime/6.1.0 ?

Either way I recieved the same exception as below.  Any idea what the 
exception might mean?

thanks

org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.LifecycleException: start of 
france/FrancePolicyServerEar/1.0/car failed
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:544) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:508) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager$$FastClassByCGLIB$$ce77a924.invoke(<generated>) 

       at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:852) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.KernelGBean.invoke(KernelGBean.java:338)
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.KernelGBean$$FastClassByCGLIB$$1cccefc9.invoke(<generated>) 

       at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:852) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.system.jmx.MBeanGBeanBridge.invoke(MBeanGBeanBridge.java:168) 

       at 
com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DynamicMetaDataImpl.invoke(DynamicMetaDataImpl.java:231) 

       at 
com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MetaDataImpl.invoke(MetaDataImpl.java:238)
       at 
com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:833) 

       at 
com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:802)
       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1423) 

       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$100(RMIConnectionImpl.java:96) 

       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1260) 

       at 
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:275)
       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1363) 

       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:797) 

       at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor62.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 

       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:615)
       at 
sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:309)
       at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:168)
       at 
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:275)
       at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:164)
       at 
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:506) 

       at 
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.handleRequest(TCPTransport.java:838) 

       at 
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:912) 

       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:799)
Caused by: 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.InvalidConfigException: Unknown 
start exception
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:440) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:411) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.KernelConfigurationManager.start(KernelConfigurationManager.java:187) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:527) 

       ... 36 more
Caused by: org.apache.geronimo.gbean.InvalidConfigurationException: 
Configuration 
france/FrancePolicyServerEar_FrancePolicyServer_WEB.war/1.0/car 
failed to start due to the following reasons:
 The service 
J2EEApplication=france/FrancePolicyServerEar/1.0/car,j2eeType=WebModule,name=FrancePolicyServer_WEB.war 
did not start because the doStart method threw an exception.
java.lang.NullPointerException
       at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:630)
       at 
org.apache.naming.resources.DirContextURLStreamHandler.bind(DirContextURLStreamHandler.java:233) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.TomcatWebAppContext.doStart(TomcatWebAppContext.java:443) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.createInstance(GBeanInstance.java:981) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:267) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:124) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:540) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:379) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:374) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:411) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.KernelConfigurationManager.start(KernelConfigurationManager.java:187) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:527) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:508) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager$$FastClassByCGLIB$$ce77a924.invoke(<generated>) 

       at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:852) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.KernelGBean.invoke(KernelGBean.java:338)
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.KernelGBean$$FastClassByCGLIB$$1cccefc9.invoke(<generated>) 

       at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:122) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:852) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:239) 

       at 
org.apache.geronimo.system.jmx.MBeanGBeanBridge.invoke(MBeanGBeanBridge.java:168) 

       at 
com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DynamicMetaDataImpl.invoke(DynamicMetaDataImpl.java:231) 

       at 
com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MetaDataImpl.invoke(MetaDataImpl.java:238)
       at 
com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:833) 

       at 
com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:802)
       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1423) 

       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$100(RMIConnectionImpl.java:96) 

       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1260) 

       at 
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:275)
       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1363) 

       at 
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:797) 

       at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor62.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 

       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:615)
       at 
sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:309)
       at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:168)
       at 
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:275)
       at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:164)
       at 
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:506) 

       at 
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.handleRequest(TCPTransport.java:838) 

       at 
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:912) 

       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:799)


       at 
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:403) 

       ... 39 more
   Error: Operation failed: start of
   france/FrancePolicyServerEar/1.0/car failed


For completeness I will include the geronimo-application.xml and 
openejb-jar.xml
geronimo-application.xml
-----------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application application-name="FrancePolicyServerEar"
             
xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-1.1";
             
xmlns:sec="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.1";
             
xmlns:sys="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1";>
 <sys:environment>
   <sys:moduleId>
     <sys:groupId>france</sys:groupId>
     <sys:artifactId>FrancePolicyServerEar</sys:artifactId>
     <sys:version>1.0</sys:version>
     <sys:type>car</sys:type>
   </sys:moduleId>
   <sys:dependencies>
     <sys:dependency>
     <sys:groupId>geronimo</sys:groupId>
     <sys:artifactId>axis</sys:artifactId>
     <sys:type>car</sys:type>
     </sys:dependency>
   </sys:dependencies>
   <sys:hidden-classes/>
   <sys:non-overridable-classes/>
 </sys:environment>
</application>

openejb-jar.xml
---------------------
<openejb-jar xmlns="http://www.openejb.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar-2.1";>
 <dep:environment 
xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1";>
   <dep:moduleId>
     <dep:groupId>qdfrancepolicy.</dep:groupId>
     <dep:artifactId>FrancePolicyServverEjb</dep:artifactId>
     <dep:version>1.0</dep:version>
     <dep:type>car</dep:type>
   </dep:moduleId>
   <dep:dependencies>
     <dep:dependency>
       <dep:groupId>geronimo</dep:groupId>
       <dep:artifactId>tomcat</dep:artifactId>
       <dep:type>car</dep:type>
     </dep:dependency>
   </dep:dependencies>
   <dep:hidden-classes/>
   <dep:non-overridable-classes/>
 </dep:environment>
 <enterprise-beans>
   <session>
     <ejb-name>FrancePolicyServer</ejb-name>
     <jndi-name>qdfrancepolicy.FrancePolicyHome</jndi-name>
   </session>
 </enterprise-beans>
</openejb-jar>


This ear includes a WAR which is merely a WebServiceRouter (ibm 
class), EJB WebService Session Bean implementation, and some JARs 
that the code depends upon.

Note:

The WAR router servlet is an IBM specific class that lives in a jar 
that is not in the ear as it is expected to be in the WAS system 
and I assume available to all.  I added this jar to the lib 
directory under the geronimo install.  I hope this is sufficient 
for this if not I would like to know the best strategy for 
deploying this jar preferrably outside the EAR.

thanks

Doug