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Plugin Portal can only show first page of a category with more than 5 plugins. Clicking ">" button throws two exceptions [2]. Steps to reproduce: =================== 1. Go to the Plugin Portal homepage [1] 2. Click "Editor" cloud from the Categories panel on the right. 3. Scroll down the page and click "Go" button. 4. Two exceptions are thrown and desired page is not displayed. [1] http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal [2] Exception Details: java.lang.NullPointerException null Possible Source of Error: Class Name: pluginportal.CategoryPage File Name: CategoryPage.java Method Name: init Line Number: 764 pluginportal.CategoryPage.init(CategoryPage.java:764) com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.servlet.LifecycleListener.fireInit(LifecycleListener.java:633) com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.servlet.LifecycleListener.attributeAdded(LifecycleListener.java:483) org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequest.setAttribute(CoyoteRequest.java:1752) org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteRequestFacade.setAttribute(CoyoteRequestFacade.java:540) com.sun.faces.context.RequestMap.put(ExternalContextImpl.java:1069) com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.createAndMaybeStoreManagedBeans(ApplicationAssociate.java:560) com.sun.faces.el.ManagedBeanELResolver.getValue(ManagedBeanELResolver.java:82) javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:143) ... Exception Details: com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.ApplicationException null Possible Source of Error: Class Name: com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl File Name: ViewHandlerImpl.java Method Name: cleanup Line Number: 603 com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl.cleanup(ViewHandlerImpl.java:603) com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:311) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144) com.sun.faces.extensions.avatar.lifecycle.PartialTraversalLifecycle.render(PartialTraversalLifecycle.java:106) javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245) org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:411) org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:317) org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198) com.sun.webui.jsf.util.UploadFilter.doFilter(UploadFilter.java:267) ...
*** Issue 175422 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Raising priority because same occurs when trying to download plugins.
Restarting the app server fixed this problem. I'm still investigating why the web app got into the broken state.