Were there more to the stack trace?
Looking at the code (line 641), there is not much clue to figure out why the NPE would happen.
} catch(Exception e) {
// next line is line 641
DeploymentException de = new DeploymentException(e.getMessage());
de.initCause(e);
throw de;
}
I understand the application is pretty big, is it possible to attach a strip down version which still manifest the problem?
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