Although the trace is slight different, this NullPointerException now exists in GlassFish v3, even using the latest EclipseLink jar? Any idea why that would be? It actually causes EAR deployment to fail altogether, just like in v2.1.1:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.lang.Class.searchMethods(Class.java:2646)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:1935)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.security.PrivilegedAccessHelper.getDeclaredMethod(PrivilegedAccessHelper.java:212)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel.ManagedTypeImpl.getTypeClassFromAttributeOrMethodLevelAccessor(ManagedTypeImpl.java:1365)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel.SingularAttributeImpl.<init>(SingularAttributeImpl.java:96)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel.ManagedTypeImpl.initialize(ManagedTypeImpl.java:1295)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel.MetamodelImpl.initialize(MetamodelImpl.java:399)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel.MetamodelImpl.<init>(MetamodelImpl.java:101)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel.MetamodelImpl.<init>(MetamodelImpl.java:120)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerSetupImpl.getMetamodel(EntityManagerSetupImpl.java:1939)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerSetupImpl.deploy(EntityManagerSetupImpl.java:385)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.getServerSession(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:151)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.createEntityManagerImpl(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:207)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.createEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:195)
at org.glassfish.persistence.jpa.PersistenceUnitLoader.doJava2DB(PersistenceUnitLoader.java:273)
at org.glassfish.persistence.jpa.JPADeployer.load(JPADeployer.java:155)
at org.glassfish.persistence.jpa.JPADeployer.load(JPADeployer.java:55)
at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.load(ModuleInfo.java:175)
at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.load(ApplicationInfo.java:216)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:338)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:183)
at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:272)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$1.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:310)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:320)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1176)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$900(CommandRunnerImpl.java:83)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1235)
at org.glassfish.deployment.autodeploy.AutoOperation.run(AutoOperation.java:141)
at org.glassfish.deployment.autodeploy.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:573)
at org.glassfish.deployment.autodeploy.AutoDeployer.deployAll(AutoDeployer.java:459)
at org.glassfish.deployment.autodeploy.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:391)
at org.glassfish.deployment.autodeploy.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:376)
at org.glassfish.deployment.autodeploy.AutoDeployService$1.run(AutoDeployService.java:195)
at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)
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