java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError Exception when creating Application Context in Spring
applicationcontext, exception, java, spring
Solution
Line 17 does not correspond to the `context.getBean("userRepository"` line, it corresponds to the line before that where you initialize the Spring context. And actually you can also see that through stacktrace, it says it failed on Line 83 of `ClassPathXmlApplicationContext` where exists the constructor of that class.
Anyway, this exception is generally thrown when Spring can not create any bean for whatever reason (Exceptions in constructors, resource loading issues, class loading issues, etc.). I would suggest decreasing the log level for spring classes and for your own libraries to see what's going on underneath.
org.springframework=TRACE
com.gamemanagertest=TRACE
com.gamemanagertest=TRACE
And also check your resource files whether they're accessible by your application and constructors of all your objects if they produce any errors, etc.
Problem
I am practicing with Spring, and am getting a java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError exception when I try to instantiate the context. The Exception appears below, with my code following it. I have simplified my experiment from before. The Exception ``` Oct 17, 2012 5:54:22 PM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh INFO: Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@570c16b7: startup date [Wed Oct 17 17:54:22 CDT 2012]; root of context hierarchy Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.createBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:195) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:128) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:535) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:449) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83) at helloworld.HelloWorldTest.main(HelloWorldTest.java:13) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.<clinit>(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:105) ... 7 more ``` My configuration XML ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd"> <bean id="messageContainer" class="helloworld.MessageContainer"> <property name="message" value="Hello World"> </property> </bean> <bean id="messageOutputService" class="helloworld.MessageOutputService"> </bean> ``` My test class. ``` package helloworld; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; public class HelloWorldTest { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("HelloWorldTest-context.xml"); MessageContainer message = context.getBean(MessageContainer.class); MessageOutputService service = context.getBean(MessageOutputService.class); service.outputMessageToConsole(message); } } ```