Refreshing Spring application context leads to NPE --------------------------------------------------
Key: CXF-4094 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-4094 Project: CXF Issue Type: Bug Components: Bus Affects Versions: 2.5, 2.4 Reporter: Jens Borgland I have a web application that uses Spring and CXF (currently 2.4.2 but I have reproduced this on 2.4.6 and 2.5.2 as well) and is deployed on Tomcat. The application is initialized using the org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener. Starting and shutting the application down works like a charm but if I try to refresh the Spring application context, using ((ConfigurableApplicationContext)applicationContext).refresh(); I run into problems. The application context first destroys all its beans (including CXFBusImpl, or rather its subclass SpringBus). SpringBus however calls ctx.close() on its application context - leading to a NullPointerException when the application context shortly after tries to close its bean factory: {code:borderStyle=solid} java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.closeBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:152) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:124) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:467) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:397)}} {code} I think that SpringBus shouldn't call ctx.close() in destroyBeans(). I tried removing this row and rebuilding CXF myself which fixed the problem (and I couldn't detect any other problems starting or shutting down). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira