When a destination property is missing on the hornetq activationConfig the AS7 server throws a NPE. Instead the HornetQActivation object could catch the exception and log a message telling the user to define the missing property.

This is the exception stack trace when AS7 starts up.

14:36:55,642 ERROR [org.hornetq.ra.inflow.HornetQActivation]
(jca-short-running-threads-threads - 6) Unable to reconnect
org.hornetq.ra.inflow.HornetQActivationSpec(ra=org.hornetq.ra.HornetQResourceAdapter@2f8541f5
destination=null destinationType=javax.jms.Queue ack=Auto-acknowledge
durable=false clientID=null user=null maxSession=15):
java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.naming.NameImpl.<init>(NameImpl.java:281) [:1.6.0_20]
at javax.naming.CompositeName.<init>(CompositeName.java:231) [:1.6.0_20]
at org.jboss.as.naming.util.NameParser.parse(NameParser.java:49)
at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.parseName(NamingContext.java:393)
at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:207)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:409)
[:1.6.0_20]
at org.hornetq.ra.Util.lookup(Util.java:174)
[hornetq-ra-2.2.7.Final.jar:]
at
org.hornetq.ra.inflow.HornetQActivation.setupDestination(HornetQActivation.java:436)
[hornetq-ra-2.2.7.Final.jar:]
at
org.hornetq.ra.inflow.HornetQActivation.setup(HornetQActivation.java:283) [hornetq-ra-2.2.7.Final.jar:]
at
org.hornetq.ra.inflow.HornetQActivation.handleFailure(HornetQActivation.java:548)
[hornetq-ra-2.2.7.Final.jar:]
at
org.hornetq.ra.inflow.HornetQActivation$SetupActivation.run(HornetQActivation.java:591)
[hornetq-ra-2.2.7.Final.jar:]
at org.jboss.jca.core.workmanager.WorkWrapper.run(WorkWrapper.java:212)
at
org.jboss.threads.SimpleDirectExecutor.execute(SimpleDirectExecutor.java:33)
at org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.runTask(QueueExecutor.java:801)
at org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.access$100(QueueExecutor.java:45)
at org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor$Worker.run(QueueExecutor.java:821)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) [:1.6.0_20]
at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)