Description David McKnight 2011-08-16 14:14:20 EDT

The following exception can occur during shutdown:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.rse.internal.persistence.PropertyFileProvider.getProfilesFolder(PropertyFileProvider.java:281)
	at org.eclipse.rse.internal.persistence.PropertyFileProvider.getAnchor(PropertyFileProvider.java:267)
	at org.eclipse.rse.internal.persistence.PropertyFileProvider.saveRSEDOM(PropertyFileProvider.java:125)
	at org.eclipse.rse.internal.persistence.PFFileSystemJob.run(PFFileSystemJob.java:66)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)


The NPE occurs because the plugin variable in RSECorePlugin is null.  It gets set to null in the RSECorePlugin.stop(BundleContext) call:

        public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		LoggerFactory.freeLogger(this);
		logger = null;
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}

Since plugin is this, I don't think there's any need to set plugin to null.