Deploying Java @Schedule with Wildfly 8.1.0 Final

Question

I am trying to test the @Schedule annotation with the following code:

import javax.ejb.Schedule;
import javax.ejb.Singleton;
import javax.ejb.Startup;

@Singleton
@Startup
public class TimerTest {

    public TimerTest() {

    }

    @Schedule(second = "*", minute = "*", hour = "*")
    public void sayHello() {
        System.out.println("Hello");
    }

}

However, when I deploy it to the standalone instance of wildfly 8.1.0 (final) I am getting the following error messages in the logs:

2014-09-23 08:38:03,076 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-4) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."test-server.war".component.TimerTest.ejb3.timerService: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test-server.war".component.TimerTest.ejb3.timerService: Failed to start service
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1904) [jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceImpl.doesTimeoutMethodMatch(TimerServiceImpl.java:959)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceImpl.restoreTimers(TimerServiceImpl.java:710)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceImpl.start(TimerServiceImpl.java:202)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1948) [jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1881) [jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final]
    ... 3 more

2014-09-23 08:38:07,098 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014613: Operation ("deploy") failed - address: ([("deployment" => "test-server.war")]) - failure description: {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"test-server.war\".component.TimerTest.ejb3.timerService" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"test-server.war\".component.TimerTest.ejb3.timerService: Failed to start service
    Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException"}}

2014-09-23 08:38:07,145 INFO  [org.jboss.as.controller] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014774: Service status report
JBAS014777:   Services which failed to start:      service jboss.deployment.unit."test-server.war".component.TimerTest.ejb3.timerService: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test-server.war".component.TimerTest.ejb3.timerService: Failed to start service

JBAS014777:   Services which failed to start:      service jboss.deployment.unit."test-server.war".component.TimerTest.ejb3.timerService

Any ideas as to what could be causing this?

Answer 1

I've seen this before. In your WildFly directory, asuming you did a standalone deployment, there will be a directory standalone/data/timer-service-data. There is probably some old timerService data in that directory. Shut down the server, delete this data and try again.

This is probably data from a test run that did not complete before the server shut down. Remember that the timerService is persistent. So if there are pending tasks when you shut down the server, it will try to pick up those tasks first. If you updated your war those timer processes will probably not match the processes in the war anymore.