Description of problem: When deploying an exploded WAR file as a child resource of my jboss as5, the operation says it fails. The error popup window says "java.lang.NullPointerException." The WAR gets deployed, but the MANIFEST.MF isn't updated, and the operation status is "Failure".


Environment: JON 2.4.0, JBoss 5.0/5.1 (tried both), RHEL 5.5, Postgres 8.4.5, java1.6u23, as5 plugin says 3.0.0.GA Build Number: 8fb6059 


How reproducible: Any time I deploy an exploded WAR as a child resource 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the inventory tab of jboss server and use the dropdown to create a new war
2. Upload a war
3. Put noarch (or anything it seems) in the version box, select radio button to deploy exploded
4. Click create
  
Actual results: The WAR is deployed, the operation fails, the manifest doesn't get modified. The WAR doesn't show up in the inventory until it's detected automatically much later.


Expected results: The WAR is deployed, the operation succeeds, the manifest has some version info in it. Should the war show up in inventory right away? I thought it would.


Additional info: The RHQ git repo was still down this morning, but I have skimmed the source code here: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=blob;f=modules/plugins/jboss-as-5/src/main/java/org/rhq/plugins/jbossas5/deploy/AbstractDeployer.java;h=5dff4ef19b8995f9afdffb681c4f27645862760c;hb=agentPlugin

Is this the nearest source that went into the JON 2.4.0 plugin?

Line 131: String deploymentName = deployTimeConfig.getSimple(DEPLOYMENT_NAME_PROPERTY).getStringValue();
//Throws NPE if deploymentName = null
URI deployePackageURI = URI.create(deploymentName);
//getPath() returns null if the URI is undefined
String path = deployePackageURI.getPath();
//new File(null) throws NPE
File location = new File(path);

An error in the agent log references the exception.

2011-01-11 12:25:16,503 ERROR [ResourceContainer.invoker.nonDaemon-1] (rhq.plugins.jbossas5.deploy.RemoteDeployer)- Error deploying application for request [CreateResourceReport: ResourceType=[Reso
urceType[id=0, category=Service, name=Web Application (WAR), plugin=JBossAS5]], ResourceKey=[null]].
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.deploy.AbstractDeployer.deploy(AbstractDeployer.java:131)
        at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.helper.CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.createContentBasedResource(CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.java:124)
        at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.helper.CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.createResource(CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.java:56)
        at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.ApplicationServerComponent.createResource(ApplicationServerComponent.java:304)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.rhq.core.pc.inventory.ResourceContainer$ComponentInvocationThread.call(ResourceContainer.java:525)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)