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Bug 303899

Summary:	RMS demo fail to start with NPE
Product:	[RT] RAP	Reporter:	Ivan Furnadjiev <ivan>
Component:	Demo	Assignee:	Project Inbox <rap-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	1.3
Target Milestone:	1.3 M6
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Ivan Furnadjiev

2010-02-25 08:50:13 EST

After the JFace 3.6 adoption the RMS demo is no longer started. A NPE occur on startup:
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.jface.resource.JFaceResources.getResources(JFaceResources.java:376)
	at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageRegistry.<init>(ImageRegistry.java:153)
	at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageRegistry.<init>(ImageRegistry.java:125)
	at org.eclipse.rap.rms.ui.internal.Activator.getImageRegistry(Activator.java:333)
	at org.eclipse.rap.rms.ui.internal.Activator.initializeImageRegistry(Activator.java:199)
	at org.eclipse.rap.rms.ui.internal.startup.RMS.createUI(RMS.java:38)
	at org.eclipse.rwt.internal.lifecycle.EntryPointManager.createUI(EntryPointManager.java:92)
	at org.eclipse.rwt.internal.lifecycle.RWTLifeCycle.createUI(RWTLifeCycle.java:253)
	at org.eclipse.rwt.internal.lifecycle.RWTLifeCycle$UIThreadController.run(RWTLifeCycle.java:117)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
	at org.eclipse.rwt.internal.lifecycle.UIThread.run(UIThread.java:80)

Comment 1 Ivan Furnadjiev

2010-02-25 11:58:54 EST

Creating the display before initializing the image registry in RMS.java solves the problem. Need to check if the current code is a valid use case.

Comment 2 Rüdiger Herrmann

2010-02-27 15:03:01 EST

Thanks for reporting this Ivan. I fixed it as you suggested.
Changes are in CVS HEAD