Null pointer exception deploying message bean

[EvanneShanley]

I am using WebLogic version 8.1 and am trying to deploy a message-driven EJB. I am using xdoclet to format the ejb-jar.xml and weblogic-ejb-jar.xml files. I have successfully deployed session and entity beans.

Specifically, I have defined a topic on the web server as follows: topic name: RacingResultsTopic; jndi-name: ejb/RacingResTopic.

In my ejb-jar.xml file, I have the following:

<message-driven >
<ejb-name>RaceMessage</ejb-name>
<ejb-class>message.RaceMessageBean</ejb-class>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
<acknowledge-mode>Auto-acknowledge</acknowledge-mode>
<message-driven-destination>
<destination-type>javax.jms.Topic</destination-type>
<subscription-durability>NonDurable</subscription-durability>
</message-driven-destination>

<ejb-local-ref >
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/RaceLocal</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
<local-home>entity.RaceLocalHome</local-home>
<local>entity.RaceLocal</local>
<ejb-link>Race</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>
<ejb-local-ref >
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/HorseLocal</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
<local-home>entity.HorseLocalHome</local-home>
<local>entity.HorseLocal</local>
<ejb-link>Horse</ejb-link>
</ejb-local-ref>

</message-driven>

In the weblogic-ejb-jar.xml, I have the following defined for the message bean (ejb-name: RaceMessage; class-name: RaceMessageBean):

<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>RaceMessage</ejb-name>
<message-driven-descriptor>
<pool>
<max-beans-in-free-pool>3</max-beans-in-free-pool>
<initial-beans-in-free-pool>1</initial-beans-in-free-pool>
</pool>
<destination-jndi-name>ejb/RacingResTopic</destination-jndi-name>
</message-driven-descriptor>
<reference-descriptor>
</reference-descriptor>
<jndi-name>ejb/RaceMessage</jndi-name>
<local-jndi-name>RaceMessageLocal</local-jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>

I include both these jar files in my ".ear" and when I try to deploy the application, I get the following error:

[Deployer:149033]preparing application RacingMgrEJBAdmin on myserver
[Deployer:149033]failed application RacingMgrEJBAdmin on myserver
[Deployer:149034]An exception occurred for task [Deployer:149026]Deploy application RacingMgrEJBAdmin on myserver.:
Exception:weblogic.management.ApplicationException: prepare failed for RacingMgrEJB.jar
Module: RacingMgrEJB.jar Error: Exception preparing module: EJBModule(RacingMgrEJB.jar,status=NEW)
Unable to deploy EJB: RaceMessage from RacingMgrEJB.jar:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.MessageDrivenBeanInfoImpl.jmsServer_Contains_DestJNDIName(MessageDrivenBeanInfoImpl.java:757)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.MessageDrivenBeanInfoImpl.setupMigrationTarget(MessageDrivenBeanInfoImpl.java:667)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.EJBDeployer.setupBeanInfos(EJBDeployer.java:973)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.EJBDeployer.prepare(EJBDeployer.java:1283)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.EJBModule.prepare(EJBModule.java:477)
at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.prepareModule(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2962)
at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.prepareModules(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:1534)
at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.prepare(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:1188)
at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.prepare(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:1031)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$ComponentActivateTask.prepareContainer(SlaveDeployer.java:2602)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$ActivateTask.createContainer(SlaveDeployer.java:2552)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$ActivateTask.prepare(SlaveDeployer.java:2474)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.processPrepareTask(SlaveDeployer.java:798)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.prepareDelta(SlaveDeployer.java:507)
at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.prepareUpdate(SlaveDeployer.java:465)
at weblogic.drs.internal.SlaveCallbackHandler$1.execute(SlaveCallbackHandler.java:25)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:197)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:170)

From the error, it almost looks as if it can't find the destination topic on the server, maybe? I have been searching and searching for help on this and have been coming up empty. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Evanne Shanley