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"Problem Occurred" error dialog in Web Page Designer view

Troubleshooting


Problem

The "Problem Occurred" error dialog shows that a NullPointerException error has occurred while working in the Web Page Designer view and usually happens after restarting IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software and on first use of the editor.

Symptom

When clicking in the Page Designer source view, the following error is seen:


Problem Occurred

An error has occurred.  See error log for more details.

java.lang.NullPointerException




Review of the error log file (the .log file found in the .metadata folder) shows the exception related to this issue:

...

!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.ui.workbench".

!STACK 0

java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.TabbedPropertySheetPage.setInput(Unknown Source)

at org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.TabbedPropertySheetPage.selectionChanged(Unknown Source)

at com.ibm.etools.webedit.editor.internal.attrview.HTMLAttributesViewTabbedPropertySheetPage.selectionChanged(Unknown Source)

at com.ibm.etools.webedit.editor.HTMLEditor.handlePostSelectionChanged(Unknown Source)

at com.ibm.etools.webedit.editor.HTMLEditor.access$1(Unknown Source)

at com.ibm.etools.webedit.editor.HTMLEditor$2.selectionChanged(Unknown Source)

...

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21388981

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