000034409 - NullPointerException in aa_server.log with webapps deployed in Weblogic 10 and 12 in RSA Adaptive Authentication (on Premise)

2016-11-16 10:39:06,064 ERROR [pool-712100-thread-1] 
[b16-:96f52ec6851:3b52ce42-||1479330503197] [a16-:96f52ec6851:3b52ce42-_TRX] [org.apache.axis2.deployment.RepositoryListener] - 
<Error occurred while loading modules from classpath>
java.lang.NullPointerException
2016-11-16 10:39:06,064 ERROR [pool-712100-thread-1]
 [b16-:96f52ec6851:3b52ce42-||1479330503197] [a16-:96f52ec6851:3b52ce42-_TRX] [org.apache.axis2.deployment.RepositoryListener] - 
<Error occurred while loading modules from classpath>
java.lang.NullPointerException

This is an Axis2 bug. The axis2 RepositoryListener class file is unable to load the addressing module from the class-path due to the scheme undefined of the resource URI. There are server specific class loader files have been used to load the different classes.

The classloader in Weblogic is loading the module.xml file as follows: zip:/export/…. /axis2-1.6.2.jar!/META-INF/module.xml, here Scheme is undefined.

Whereas the file is being loaded in Tomcat server in a different fashion: jar:file:/C:/Program…../axis2-1.6.2.jar!/META-INF/module.xml, here Scheme is ‘file’.

As the Scheme is undefined for the URI for weblogic server, the Axis2 code is breaking at one point and throwing NullPointerException.
Below is the line of code which is causing error:

org.apache.axis2.deployment.RepositoryListener:
if (idx != -1 && path.substring(idx+2).equals("META-INF/module.xml")) {
moduleURI = new URI(path.substring(0, idx).replaceAll(" ", "%20"));
if (!moduleURI.getScheme().equals("file"))
{ continue; }
} else {
continue;
}

This is an Axis2 issue and we have already created an Apache JIRA ticket on this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-5685.