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Bug 56020

Summary:	[41cat] NullPointerException on startup
Product:	projects	Reporter:	_ leonchiver <leonchiver>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jchalupa
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	stacktrace of the exception

Description _ leonchiver 2005-03-05 10:53:44 UTC

[ JDK VERSION : 1.5.0_01 ]

for quite a while i'm getting a NPE on startup (while scanning is on the way but without being related to it).

Comment 1 _ leonchiver 2005-03-05 10:54:38 UTC

Created attachment 20702 [details]
stacktrace of the exception

Comment 2 Marian Mirilovic 2005-03-05 17:25:56 UTC

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ParentNode.nodeListGetLength(ParentNode.java:745)
    at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ParentNode.getLength(ParentNode.java:757)
    at
org.netbeans.modules.ant.freeform.spi.support.Util.findElement(Util.java:60)

Comment 3 Jan Chalupa 2005-03-06 17:12:04 UTC

Duplicate of issue #50198. Reported several times recently. Looks like
a threading problem in Xerces. Also see issue #46999, especially the
link to the Xerces issue description:

http://www.xml-xerces.com/msg/2734.html



*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 50198 ***