This closes #49
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+package org.apache.brooklyn.entity.webapp;
+
+import org.apache.brooklyn.api.entity.EntitySpec;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.api.mgmt.entitlement.EntitlementClass;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.api.mgmt.entitlement.EntitlementContext;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.api.mgmt.entitlement.EntitlementManager;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.api.policy.PolicySpec;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.api.sensor.AttributeSensor;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.core.internal.BrooklynProperties;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.core.mgmt.entitlement.Entitlements;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.core.mgmt.internal.EffectorUtils;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.core.sensor.Sensors;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.core.test.BrooklynAppUnitTestSupport;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.entity.proxy.TrackingAbstractController;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.location.localhost.LocalhostMachineProvisioningLocation;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.policy.autoscaling.AutoScalerPolicy;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.test.LogWatcher;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.test.LogWatcher.EventPredicates;
+import org.apache.brooklyn.test.entity.TestJavaWebAppEntity;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
+import com.google.common.base.Predicates;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
+
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
+
+/**
+ * See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BROOKLYN-313
+ * 
+ * That problems was first encountered with auto-scaling a {@link ControlledDynamicWebAppCluster},
+ * hence testing it explicitly here.
+ */
+public class EffectorExceptionLoggedTest extends BrooklynAppUnitTestSupport {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EffectorExceptionLoggedTest.class);
+
+    private LocalhostMachineProvisioningLocation loc;
+
+    public static class ThrowingEntitlementManager implements EntitlementManager {
+        @Override 
+        public <T> boolean isEntitled(EntitlementContext context, EntitlementClass<T> entitlementClass, T entitlementClassArgument) {
+            if (context == null || context.user() == null) {
+                LOG.info("Simulating NPE in entitlement manager");
+                throw new NullPointerException();
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @BeforeMethod(alwaysRun=true)
+    public void setUp() throws Exception {
+        super.setUp();
+        loc = app.newLocalhostProvisioningLocation();
+    }
+
+    protected BrooklynProperties getBrooklynProperties() {
+        BrooklynProperties result = BrooklynProperties.Factory.newEmpty();
+        result.put(Entitlements.GLOBAL_ENTITLEMENT_MANAGER, ThrowingEntitlementManager.class.getName());
+        return result;
+    }
+    
+    // Marked as integration, because takes over a second
+    @Test(groups="Integration")
+    public void testResizeFailsWhenEntitlementThrowsShouldLogException() throws Exception {
+        final AttributeSensor<Integer> scalingMetric = Sensors.newIntegerSensor("scalingMetric");
+        
+        ControlledDynamicWebAppCluster cluster = app.createAndManageChild(EntitySpec.create(ControlledDynamicWebAppCluster.class)
+                .configure("initialSize", 1)
+                .configure(ControlledDynamicWebAppCluster.CONTROLLER_SPEC, EntitySpec.create(TrackingAbstractController.class))
+                .configure(ControlledDynamicWebAppCluster.MEMBER_SPEC, EntitySpec.create(TestJavaWebAppEntity.class))
+                .policy(PolicySpec.create(AutoScalerPolicy.class)
+                        .configure(AutoScalerPolicy.METRIC, scalingMetric)
+                        .configure(AutoScalerPolicy.MIN_POOL_SIZE, 1)
+                        .configure(AutoScalerPolicy.MAX_POOL_SIZE, 2)
+                        .configure(AutoScalerPolicy.METRIC_LOWER_BOUND, 1)
+                        .configure(AutoScalerPolicy.METRIC_UPPER_BOUND, 10)));
+        
+        Entitlements.setEntitlementContext(new EntitlementContext() {
+                @Override
+                public String user() {
+                    return "myuser";
+                }});
+        app.start(ImmutableList.of(loc));
+        Entitlements.clearEntitlementContext();
+
+        String loggerName = EffectorUtils.class.getName();
+        ch.qos.logback.classic.Level logLevel = ch.qos.logback.classic.Level.DEBUG;
+        Predicate<ILoggingEvent> filter = Predicates.and(EventPredicates.containsMessage("Error invoking "), 
+                EventPredicates.containsExceptionStackLine(ThrowingEntitlementManager.class, "isEntitled"));
+        LogWatcher watcher = new LogWatcher(loggerName, logLevel, filter);
+                
+        watcher.start();
+        try {
+            // Cause the auto-scaler to resize, which will fail because of the bad entitlement implementation
+            cluster.sensors().set(scalingMetric, 50);
+            watcher.assertHasEventEventually();
+        } finally {
+            watcher.close();
+        }
+    }
+
+}