diff --git a/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessor.java b/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessor.java
index 09bb4ccdbd0..ca3f027bdeb 100644
--- a/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessor.java
+++ b/jetty-plus/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessor.java
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ public class PlusDescriptorProcessor extends IterativeDescriptorProcessor
         if (defaultNE!=null)
             defaultNE.bindToENC(name);
         else
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Nothing to bind for name "+nameInEnvironment);
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Nothing to bind for name " + name);
     }
 
 
diff --git a/jetty-plus/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessorTest.java b/jetty-plus/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessorTest.java
index c6ff2f7b3ac..8199afd19d3 100644
--- a/jetty-plus/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessorTest.java
+++ b/jetty-plus/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/plus/webapp/PlusDescriptorProcessorTest.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jetty.plus.webapp;
 
 
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ public class PlusDescriptorProcessorTest
     protected FragmentDescriptor fragDescriptor1;
     protected FragmentDescriptor fragDescriptor2;
     protected FragmentDescriptor fragDescriptor3;
+    protected FragmentDescriptor fragDescriptor4;
     protected WebAppContext context;
     /**
      * @throws java.lang.Exception
@@ -81,6 +83,9 @@ public class PlusDescriptorProcessorTest
         URL frag3Xml = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("web-fragment-3.xml");
         fragDescriptor3 = new FragmentDescriptor(org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource.newResource(frag3Xml));
         fragDescriptor3.parse();
+        URL frag4Xml = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("web-fragment-4.xml");
+        fragDescriptor4 = new FragmentDescriptor(org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource.newResource(frag4Xml));
+        fragDescriptor4.parse();
     }
 
     @After
@@ -94,6 +99,32 @@ public class PlusDescriptorProcessorTest
         Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(oldLoader);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testMissingResourceDeclaration()
+    throws Exception
+    {
+        ClassLoader oldLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
+        Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(context.getClassLoader());
+
+        try
+        {
+            PlusDescriptorProcessor pdp = new PlusDescriptorProcessor();
+            pdp.process(context, fragDescriptor4);
+            fail("Expected missing resource declaration");
+        }
+        catch (InvocationTargetException ex)
+        {
+            Throwable cause = ex.getCause();
+            assertNotNull(cause);
+            assertNotNull(cause.getMessage());
+            assertTrue(cause.getMessage().contains("jdbc/mymissingdatasource"));
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(oldLoader);
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testWebXmlResourceDeclarations()
     throws Exception
diff --git a/jetty-plus/src/test/resources/web-fragment-4.xml b/jetty-plus/src/test/resources/web-fragment-4.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c2158ea156a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jetty-plus/src/test/resources/web-fragment-4.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<web-fragment
+   xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
+   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-fragment_3_0.xsd"
+   version="3.0">
+
+    <name>Fragment 4</name>
+
+    <resource-ref>
+        <res-ref-name>jdbc/mymissingdatasource</res-ref-name>
+        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
+        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
+    </resource-ref>
+</web-fragment>