Deployment fails with NullPointerException on EAP7.2

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Issue

If the war file contains spring-web-4.3.xx.RELEASE.jar and juel-spi-2.2.x.jar which is EL implementation library in WEB-INF/lib, the deployment fails with the following message. The deployment is successful on EAP7.0.x and EAP7.1.x, but it fails on EAP7.2.x.

14:55:59,808 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 73) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."reproduce.war".undertow-deployment: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."reproduce.war".undertow-deployment: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentService$1.run(UndertowDeploymentService.java:81)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1985)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1487)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1378)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:485)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at io.undertow.servlet.core.DeploymentManagerImpl.deploy(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:252)
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentService.startContext(UndertowDeploymentService.java:96)
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentService$1.run(UndertowDeploymentService.java:78)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:315)
    at io.undertow.servlet.core.ApplicationListeners.contextInitialized(ApplicationListeners.java:187)
    at io.undertow.servlet.core.DeploymentManagerImpl$1.call(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:216)
    at io.undertow.servlet.core.DeploymentManagerImpl$1.call(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:185)
    at io.undertow.servlet.core.ServletRequestContextThreadSetupAction$1.call(ServletRequestContextThreadSetupAction.java:42)
    at io.undertow.servlet.core.ContextClassLoaderSetupAction$1.call(ContextClassLoaderSetupAction.java:43)
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.security.SecurityContextThreadSetupAction.lambda$create$0(SecurityContextThreadSetupAction.java:105)
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentInfoService$UndertowThreadSetupAction.lambda$create$0(UndertowDeploymentInfoService.java:1504)
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentInfoService$UndertowThreadSetupAction.lambda$create$0(UndertowDeploymentInfoService.java:1504)
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentInfoService$UndertowThreadSetupAction.lambda$create$0(UndertowDeploymentInfoService.java:1504)
    at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.UndertowDeploymentInfoService$UndertowThreadSetupAction.lambda$create$0(UndertowDeploymentInfoService.java:1504)
    at io.undertow.servlet.core.DeploymentManagerImpl.deploy(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:250)
    ... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.add(CompositeELResolver.java:117)
    at com.sun.faces.el.DemuxCompositeELResolver.addRootELResolver(DemuxCompositeELResolver.java:142)
    at com.sun.faces.el.ELUtils.addEL3_0_Resolvers(ELUtils.java:336)
    at com.sun.faces.el.ELUtils.buildFacesResolver(ELUtils.java:258)
    at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.initializeELResolverChains(ApplicationAssociate.java:503)
    at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.performOneTimeELInitialization(ApplicationImpl.java:1405)
    at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.getELResolver(ApplicationImpl.java:529)
    at javax.faces.application.ApplicationWrapper.getELResolver(ApplicationWrapper.java:621)
    at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:256)
    ... 21 more

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 7.2

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