I have been trying to run this example: http://bill.dudney.net/roller/bill/entry/20070428
Now it seems, that when the testNG tests run, I get an NPE here: *DbUnitTestBase.java * @BeforeClass(groups = {"database"}) protected void loadSeedData() throws Exception { logger.debug("loadSeedData"); IDatabaseConnection dbunitConn = null; EntityManager em = null; try { *em = entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();* Here is my error in *testng-results.xml* <test name="Command line test"> <class name="net.dudney.jpaund.domain.SimpleTest"> <test-method status="SKIP" signature="initDB()" name="initDB" is-config="true" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="SKIP" signature="testCreateSiteUser()" name="testCreateSiteUser" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="FAIL" signature="loadSeedData()" name="loadSeedData" is-config="true" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z"> <exception class="java.lang.NullPointerException"> <full-stacktrace> <![CDATA[java.lang.NullPointerException at net.dudney.jpaund.domain.DbUnitTestBase.loadSeedData( DbUnitTestBase.java:43) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.testng.internal.MethodHelper.invokeMethod(MethodHelper.java:580) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java :398) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:145) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:82) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeBeforeClassMethods( TestMethodWorker.java:166) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:103) at org.testng.TestRunner.runWorkers(TestRunner.java:689) at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:566) at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:466) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:301) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:296) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:276) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:191) at org.testng.TestNG.createAndRunSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:808) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:776) at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:701) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run( TestNGExecutor.java:62) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute( TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:136) at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:177) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess( SurefireBooter.java:338) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main( SurefireBooter.java:997) ]]> </full-stacktrace> </exception> </test-method> </class> <class name="net.dudney.jpaund.dao.jpa.BaseDaoJpaTest"> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testGetUpdateObjects()" name="testGetUpdateObjects" duration-ms="13078" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:42Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testQueryBuildingRealClass()" name="testQueryBuildingRealClass" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testQueryBuildingNullParameter()" name="testQueryBuildingNullParameter" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testGetObject()" name="testGetObject" duration-ms="219" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:45Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:46Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testSaveOrUpdateObjectExistingObject()" name="testSaveOrUpdateObjectExistingObject" duration-ms="12735" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:20Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:33Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="setUpSpring()" name="setUpSpring" is-config="true" duration-ms="1281" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:13Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:14Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testQueryBuildingEmptyParam()" name="testQueryBuildingEmptyParam" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:30Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:30Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testDeleteObject()" name="testDeleteObject" duration-ms="13281" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:07Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:20Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testQueryBuildingDoubleParamOrderBy()" name="testQueryBuildingDoubleParamOrderBy" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:33Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:33Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testSaveOrUpdateObjectNewObject()" name="testSaveOrUpdateObjectNewObject" duration-ms="12203" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:30Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:42Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testParameterQuery()" name="testParameterQuery" duration-ms="344" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:07Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:07Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testFetchWithOrderBy()" name="testFetchWithOrderBy" duration-ms="12360" started-at="2008-03-20T11:51:33Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:45Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testQueryBuildingSingleParam()" name="testQueryBuildingSingleParam" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testGetPKFieldName()" name="testGetPKFieldName" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testDeleteNonObject()" name="testDeleteNonObject" duration-ms="11140" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:51:07Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testSingleParameterQuery()" name="testSingleParameterQuery" duration-ms="1079" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:29Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:30Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="loadSeedData()" name="loadSeedData" is-config="true" duration-ms="15234" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:14Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:29Z"> </test-method> <test-method status="PASS" signature="testQueryBuildingDoubleParam()" name="testQueryBuildingDoubleParam" duration-ms="0" started-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z" finished-at="2008-03-20T11:50:55Z"> </test-method> </class> </test> </suite> The strange thing is, most of the tests pass in *BaseDaoJpaTest.java* but not in *SimpleTest.java* I am very perplexed and want to fully understand how to get DBUnit, Maven, and openJPA forking please. -- Thanks, Mick Knutson http://www.baselogic.com http://www.blincmagazine.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mickknutson http://www.djmick.com http://www.myspace.com/mickknutson http://www.myspace.com/BLiNCMagazine http://tahoe.baselogic.com --- -- Thanks, Mick Knutson http://www.baselogic.com http://www.blincmagazine.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mickknutson http://www.djmick.com http://www.myspace.com/mickknutson http://www.myspace.com/BLiNCMagazine http://tahoe.baselogic.com ---