Re: Problem at geronimo boot

[Paolo Denti]

Yes, it is a file. anyway the application is working on jboss this is the web.xml ======================== <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="2.4"     xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"     xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee     http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">     <context-param>         <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>         <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext*.xml</param-value>     </context-param>     <servlet>         <servlet-name>MyAppweb</servlet-name>         <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>         <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>     </servlet>     <listener>         <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>     </listener>     <listener>         <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>     </listener>     <servlet-mapping>         <servlet-name>MyAppweb</servlet-name>         <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>     </servlet-mapping>     <filter>         <filter-name>Acegi Filter Chain Proxy</filter-name>         <filter-class>org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy</filter-class>         <init-param>             <param-name>targetClass</param-name>             <param-value>org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy</param-value>         </init-param>     </filter>     <filter>         <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>         <filter-class>com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter</filter-class>         <init-param>             <param-name>debug.pagewriter</param-name>             <param-value>true</param-value>         </init-param>     </filter>     <filter-mapping>         <filter-name>Acegi Filter Chain Proxy</filter-name>         <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>     </filter-mapping>     <filter-mapping>         <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>         <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>     </filter-mapping>         <resource-ref>         <description>datasource</description>         <res-ref-name>jdbc/MyAppDS</res-ref-name>         <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>         <res-auth>Container</res-auth>     </resource-ref>     <resource-ref>         <description>datasource</description>         <res-ref-name>mail/DefaultMail</res-ref-name>         <res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>         <res-auth>Container</res-auth>     </resource-ref> </web-app> David Jencks wrote: On Aug 27, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Paolo Denti wrote: Hi, i am a brand new geronimo user (or at least i am trying to be) I am trying to deploy already existing applications (EARs), already working on jboss, without any particular deployment descriptior, on geronimo. I always get NPEs at geronimo startup. below you can find the stacktrace. it happens if i deploy with geronimo running or if i deploy with geronimo stopped and then start geronimo. environment is - geronimo 2.0.1 with jetty - os x 10.4.10 - jdk 1.5.0_07 - JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home thanks Paolo Geronimo Application Server started 23:16:07,293 ERROR [Deployer] Deployment failed due to java.lang.NullPointerException         at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.CopyResourceContext.addFile(CopyResourceContext.java:144)         at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.DeploymentContext.addFile(DeploymentContext.java:461)         at org.apache.geronimo.web25.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder.installModule(AbstractWebModuleBuilder.java:288)         at org.apache.geronimo.web25.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder$$FastClassByCGLIB$$8523248f.invoke(<generated>) Poking around in the code a little bit it looks to me as if the only way this could happen is if there is a WEB-INF/web.xml in the war but it can't be read into a string.  Could you check the structure of your war files and make sure the WEB-INF/web.xml are really files and not directories and they can be accessed properly (e.g. by unjarring them and looking at them in an editor, or looking at them in emacs) thanks david jencks