Re: Why DWR 2.0.1 is trying to configure from Annotations?

I also saw the following exception related with the problem.
-- Deha Peker

022608--20:20:25,396 --DEBUG -- CommonsLoggingOutput -- Configuring from servlet resource: /WEB-INF/dwr.xml
022608--20:20:25,412 --DEBUG -- CommonsLoggingOutput -- - adding creator: NewCreator for LimitsUsrProRemote
022608--20:20:25,427 --FATAL -- CommonsLoggingOutput -- Rethrowing Error:java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
022608--20:20:25,427 --FATAL -- CommonsLoggingOutput -- ExceptionInInitializerError. Nested exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Hashtable.get(Hashtable.java:333)
        at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:233)
        at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:209)
        at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:351)
        at org.directwebremoting.util.CommonsLoggingOutput.<init>(CommonsLoggingOutput.java:35)
        at org.directwebremoting.util.Logger.<init>(Logger.java:62)
        at org.directwebremoting.util.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:33)
        at org.directwebremoting.annotations.AnnotationsConfigurator.<clinit>(AnnotationsConfigurator.java:335)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:308)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
        at org.directwebremoting.impl.ContainerUtil.configureFromAnnotations(ContainerUtil.java:332)
        at org.directwebremoting.impl.ContainerUtil.configureContainerFully(ContainerUtil.java:428)
        at org.directwebremoting.servlet.DwrServlet.init(DwrServlet.java:79)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInitAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1099)
        at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
        at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:975)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createInstances(ServletStubImpl.java:954)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:893)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3456)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlets(WebAppServletContext.java:3413)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlets(WebAppServletContext.java:3399)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:3382)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.setStarted(WebAppServletContext.java:6262)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:892)
        at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.start(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2181)
        at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.activate(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2222)
        at weblogic.j2ee.J2EEApplicationContainer.activate(J2EEApplicationContainer.java:2169)
        at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer$Application.setActivation(SlaveDeployer.java:3111)
        at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.setActivationStateForAllApplications(SlaveDeployer.java:1769)
        at weblogic.management.deploy.slave.SlaveDeployer.resume(SlaveDeployer.java:352)
        at weblogic.management.deploy.DeploymentManagerServerLifeCycleImpl.resume(DeploymentManagerServerLifeCycleImpl.java:229)
        at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemManager.resume(SubsystemManager.java:136)
        at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.resume(T3Srvr.java:965)
        at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:360)
        at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)
022608--20:48:04,902 --INFO  -- CommonsLoggingOutput -- DWR Version 2.0.1 starti