Running jconsole from the JDK fails to connect to JBoss EAP 6 JMX with NullPointerException
Issue
jconsole not working when it is run from %JAVA_HOME%\bin\jconsole.bat , we are not using the %JBOSS_HOME%\bin\jconsole.bat, we are passing options to the %JAVA_HOME%\bin\jconsole.bat
%JAVA_HOME%\bin\jconsole.bat -J-Djava.class.path=$JAVA_HOME\lib\jconsole.jar;$JAVA_HOME\lib\tools.jar;jboss-cli-client.jar
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.jboss.as.cli.gui.JConsoleCLIPlugin.getTabs(JConsoleCLIPlugin.java:83)
at sun.tools.jconsole.VMPanel.createPluginTabs(VMPanel.java:652)
at sun.tools.jconsole.VMPanel.propertyChange(VMPanel.java:324)
at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.fire(PropertyChangeSupport.java:335)
at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:327)
at javax.swing.event.SwingPropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(SwingPropertyChangeSupport.java:92)
at javax.swing.event.SwingPropertyChangeSupport$1.run(SwingPropertyChangeSupport.java:97)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:312)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:745)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$300(EventQueue.java:103)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:706)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:704)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:715)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.misc.MetaIndex.mayContain(MetaIndex.java:243)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:830)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:199)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:251)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getBootstrapResource(ClassLoader.java:1305)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1144)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1142)
at java.lang.Class.getResource(Class.java:2147)
at org.jboss.as.cli.gui.GuiMain.<clinit>(GuiMain.java:63)
... 21 more
Environment
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.x
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