Eclipse throws NullPointerException during Maven update

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Robert J. Walker picture Robert J. Walker · Nov 5, 2013 · Viewed 29.5k times · Source

I've been fighting an internal Eclipse error for two days. I'm running the latest Spring Tool Suite edition of Eclipse, and I've attempting to import a collection of existing Maven projects. Whenever I do so, Eclipse throws a NullPointerException, but no stack trace is available from the Error Log view. If I instruct Eclipse to update the Maven project (Maven > Update Project), I get a NullPointerException again. This time, the Error Log view reports the following stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.resources.VirtualResource.getProjectRelativePaths(VirtualResource.java:119)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.resources.VirtualFile.getUnderlyingFiles(VirtualFile.java:104)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.resources.VirtualFile.getUnderlyingResources(VirtualFile.java:93)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.resources.VirtualResource.exists(VirtualResource.java:88)
    at org.eclipse.jst.common.internal.modulecore.util.ManifestUtilities.getNonBinaryComponentManifest(ManifestUtilities.java:124)
    at org.eclipse.jst.common.internal.modulecore.util.ManifestUtilities.getManifest(ManifestUtilities.java:81)
    at org.eclipse.jst.common.internal.modulecore.util.ManifestUtilities.getManifestClasspath(ManifestUtilities.java:147)
    at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.getManifestClasspath(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java:248)
    at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.calculateManifestReferences(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java:368)
    at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.cacheManifestReferences(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java:360)
    at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.getReferences(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java:176)
    at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.getReferences(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java:214)
    at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.getReferences(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java:207)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.wtp.WebProjectConfiguratorDelegate.configureClasspath(WebProjectConfiguratorDelegate.java:386)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.wtp.WTPProjectConfigurator.configureClasspath(WTPProjectConfigurator.java:107)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.DefaultClasspathManagerDelegate.populateClasspath(DefaultClasspathManagerDelegate.java:61)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.BuildPathManager.getClasspath(BuildPathManager.java:253)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.BuildPathManager.getClasspath(BuildPathManager.java:363)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.BuildPathManager.getClasspath(BuildPathManager.java:343)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.BuildPathManager.getClasspath(BuildPathManager.java:371)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.BuildPathManager.updateClasspath(BuildPathManager.java:191)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.BuildPathManager.mavenProjectChanged(BuildPathManager.java:180)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.notifyProjectChangeListeners(ProjectRegistryManager.java:746)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.applyMutableProjectRegistry(ProjectRegistryManager.java:865)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:289)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.ProjectConfigurationManager.updateProjectConfiguration0(ProjectConfigurationManager.java:369)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.ProjectConfigurationManager$2.call(ProjectConfigurationManager.java:316)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.ProjectConfigurationManager$2.call(ProjectConfigurationManager.java:1)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.embedder.MavenExecutionContext.executeBare(MavenExecutionContext.java:161)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.embedder.MavenExecutionContext.execute(MavenExecutionContext.java:137)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.embedder.MavenExecutionContext.execute(MavenExecutionContext.java:89)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.embedder.MavenImpl.execute(MavenImpl.java:1301)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.ProjectConfigurationManager.updateProjectConfiguration(ProjectConfigurationManager.java:313)
    at org.eclipse.m2e.core.ui.internal.UpdateMavenProjectJob.runInWorkspace(UpdateMavenProjectJob.java:77)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.InternalWorkspaceJob.run(InternalWorkspaceJob.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)

Here's what I've tried:

  • I've blown away my workspace and created a new one. Multiple times.
  • I've blown away my Maven repository so that it would be re-created.
  • I've reinstalled Spring Tool Suite.
  • I've tried asking Eclipse to update the Maven repositories.
  • I've checked for merge conflicts in my local SVN repository. (There are none; this is a brand new branch from trunk that is freshly checked out.)
  • I've checked the Synchronize view in Eclipse to see if it notes any differences. (Eclipse can't get far enough to recognize any projects available to synchronize.)
  • I've searched Google for NullPointerExceptions occurring in VirtualResource.getProjectRelativePaths(). I've found NullPointerExceptions in other very similar places, and I've tried the recommendations for them, just for the heck of it, but none of them work.

I'm at my wits' end with this problem. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you are my only hope.

Answer

genjosanzo picture genjosanzo · Dec 18, 2013

This is what I did to fix it:

  1. Removed the project from the workspace
  2. Remove .classpath, .project and .settings folder
  3. Reimport the project

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