Catch NullPointerException in SetDefaultLocalBusinessInterfaceProcessor.process() -> Class.forName() and throw real error throw

Deploying an EJB which has an EJB name in <filename>jboss.xml</filename> that is not defined in <filename>ejb-jar.xml</filename> or in <literal>@Stateless</literal> will throw a NullPointerException instead of throwing an exception with the underlying issue. For example: <screen> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) at org.jboss.metadata.process.processor.ejb.jboss.SetDefaultLocalBusinessInterfaceProcessor.process(SetDefaultLocalBusinessInterfaceProcessor.java:114) at org.jboss.metadata.process.chain.ejb.jboss.JBossMetaDataProcessorChain.process(JBossMetaDataProcessorChain.java:115) at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3MetadataProcessingDeployer.deploy(Ejb3MetadataProcessingDeployer.java:142) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:179) <screen> The root cause of this under investigation and it is expected to be resolved in a future release.