NullPointerException in RepositoryClassLoader.findResources()

My company is using vanilla Axis 1.2 services in JBoss AS, these libraries are deployed into server/default/lib

When reloading the .ear file that uses AxisServlet, this occurs:

2005-08-18 16:01:50,921 INFO [WebappClassLoader] ( ) Illegal access: this web application instance
has been stopped already. Could not load META-INF/services/org.apache.axis.EngineConfigurationFact
ory. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well
as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact
.
2005-08-18 16:01:50,921 ERROR [[/app]] ( ) StandardWrapper.Throwable
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.findResources(RepositoryClassLoader.java:543)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResources(ClassLoader.java:851)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResources(ClassLoader.java:847)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResources(ClassLoader.java:847)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.jdk.JDK12Hooks.getResources(JDK12Hooks.java:150)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.DiscoverResources$1.getNextResources(DiscoverResources.ja
va:153)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.DiscoverResources$1.getNextResource(DiscoverResources.jav
a:129)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.DiscoverResources$1.hasNext(DiscoverResources.java:116)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.names.DiscoverNamesInFile$1.getNextClassNames(DiscoverNam
esInFile.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.names.DiscoverNamesInFile$1.getNextClassName(DiscoverName
sInFile.java:170)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.names.DiscoverNamesInFile$1.hasNext(DiscoverNamesInFile.j
ava:157)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.names.NameDiscoverers$1.getNextIterator(NameDiscoverers.j
ava:143)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.names.NameDiscoverers$1.hasNext(NameDiscoverers.java:126)

at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.classes.ResourceClassDiscoverImpl$1.getNextResource(Resou
rceClassDiscoverImpl.java:159)
at org.apache.commons.discovery.resource.classes.ResourceClassDiscoverImpl$1.hasNext(ResourceClass
DiscoverImpl.java:147)
at org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder$1.run(EngineConfigurationFactory
Finder.java:120)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.axis.configuration.EngineConfigurationFactoryFinder.newFactory(EngineConfigurationFa
ctoryFinder.java:113)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngineEnvironment(AxisServletBase.java:273)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine(AxisServletBase.java:172)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getOption(AxisServletBase.java:396)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.init(AxisServletBase.java:112)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)

This is because the repository was destroyed.

Here is a suggested patch:

Index: src/main/org/jboss/mx/loading/RepositoryClassLoader.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/jboss/jmx/src/main/org/jboss/mx/loading/Attic/RepositoryClassLoader.java,v
retrieving revision 1.3.4.3
diff -b -B -U8 -r1.3.4.3 RepositoryClassLoader.java
— src/main/org/jboss/mx/loading/RepositoryClassLoader.java 27 Jan 2005 04:25:39 -0000 1.3.4.3
+++ src/main/org/jboss/mx/loading/RepositoryClassLoader.java 25 Aug 2005 01:09:38 -0000
@@ -535,16 +535,21 @@
*

• @param name the name of the resource
• @return Enumeration<URL>
• @throws java.io.IOException
  */
  public Enumeration findResources(String name) throws IOException
  Unknown macro: { Vector resURLs = new Vector();+ if( repository == null )+ { + String msg = "Invalid use of destroyed classloader, UCL destroyed at:"; + throw (IOException)(new IOException(msg).initCause(this.unregisterTrace)); + } repository.getResources(name, this, resURLs); return resURLs.elements(); }

/**

• Provides the same functionality as {@link java.net.URLClassLoader#findResources}

  .
  */
  public Enumeration findResourcesLocally(String name) throws IOException

It's also legitimate, perhaps, to do this:

public Enumeration findResources(String name) throws IOException
{
Vector resURLs = new Vector();
if (repository != null)

{ repository.getResources(name, this, resURLs); }

return resURLs.elements();
}

I can apply this patch myself... Please let me know.