title: weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Deployment could not be created. Deployment creator is null
body: <p>I manually deployed a war file.  I tried to start it in Weblogic and get a "failed to transition from STATE_NEW to STATE_PREPARED on server AdminServer."</p>
  
  <p>Once I activated any changes and restarted I see that the deployment is in Failed status.  When I tried to restarted I get the error below.  Other people have been able to deploy so I don't think it's a problem with the war file.:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Apr 2, 2012 12:03:41 PM EDT&gt; &lt;Warning&gt; &lt;Deployer&gt; &lt;ISW-PC-LT&gt; &lt;AdminServer&gt; &lt;[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'&gt; &lt;&lt;WLS Kernel&gt;&gt; &lt;&gt; &lt;&gt; &lt;1333382621250&gt; &lt;BEA-149078&gt; &lt;Stack trace for message 149004
  weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Deployment could not be created. Deployment creator is null.
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.createDeployment(BasicDeployment.java:154)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.createAndPrepareContainer(ActivateOperation.java:201)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.StartOperation.createAndPrepareContainer(StartOperation.java:94)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.StartOperation.doPrepare(StartOperation.java:107)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.prepare(AbstractOperation.java:229)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentPrepare(DeploymentManager.java:749)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.prepareDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1216)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handlePrepare(DeploymentManager.java:250)
      at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.prepare(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:160)
      at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doPrepareCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:171)
      at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$000(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:13)
      at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$1.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:47)
      at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:545)
      at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:256)
      at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:221)
  &gt; 
  Apr 2, 2012 12:03:42 PM EDT&gt; &lt;Warning&gt; &lt;netuix&gt; &lt;ISW-PC-LT&gt; &lt;AdminServer&gt; &lt;[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'&gt; &lt;weblogic&gt; &lt;&gt; &lt;34607faaacd75321:-46eb8849:13673c91d14:-8000-0000000000000055&gt; &lt;1333382622159&gt; &lt;BEA-423420&gt; &lt;Redirect is executed in begin or refresh action. Redirect url is /console/console.portal?_nfpb=true&amp;_pageLabel=AppDeploymentsControlPage.&gt; 
  </code></pre>