Java.lang.NullPointerException oracle.apps.xdo.servlet.GlobalContext.getPro

Question

Hi,
We have installed BI Publisher as part of OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1. Our J2EE Application Server is Apache Tomcat 5.5.2.7
After manually deploying the xmlpserver.war in Tomcat and doing the changes to xmlp-server-config.xml
When i am trying access the URL, its resulting into following Tomcat Error:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
     oracle.apps.xdo.servlet.GlobalContext.getProperty(GlobalContext.java:182)
     oracle.apps.xdo.servlet.security.SecurityFilter.handleSSO(SecurityFilter.java:318)
     oracle.apps.xdo.servlet.security.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:108)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.27 logs.
Before doing the changes, when i tried to access via URL, it was showing up BI Publisher Login Screen.
Any idea whats wrong?
I have also copied the fonts to the JRE/lib/fonts folder.
Thanks,
Shalabhsneha

Answer 1

I went through Tomcat Logs & found following full trace in catalina.out
- Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at oracle.apps.xdo.servlet.GlobalContext.getProperty(GlobalContext.java:182)
at oracle.apps.xdo.servlet.security.SecurityFilter.handleSSO(SecurityFilter.java:318)
at oracle.apps.xdo.servlet.security.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)