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After downloading and installing apache commons net and adding it as a library with javadoc pointed at the docs dir of the binary distribution, tried to bring up the Help | Javadoc References submenu. The following was thrown: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.universe.AbstractEntryWithSources.getRunDependencies(AbstractEntryWithSources.java:100) at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.Evaluator.computeRuntimeModuleClasspath(Evaluator.java:645) at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.Evaluator.createEvaluator(Evaluator.java:343) at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.Evaluator.reset(Evaluator.java:194) at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.Evaluator.delegatingEvaluator(Evaluator.java:182) at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.Evaluator.evaluate(Evaluator.java:140) at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.NbModuleProject.getModuleJarLocation(NbModuleProject.java:383) at org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.project.queries.JavadocForBinaryImpl.findJavadoc(JavadocForBinaryImpl.java:56) at org.netbeans.modules.java.project.JavadocForBinaryQueryImpl.findJavadoc(JavadocForBinaryQueryImpl.java:49) at org.netbeans.api.java.queries.JavadocForBinaryQuery.findJavadoc(JavadocForBinaryQuery.java:63) at org.netbeans.modules.javadoc.search.JavadocRegistry.readRoots(JavadocRegistry.java:150) at org.netbeans.modules.javadoc.search.JavadocRegistry.getDocRoots(JavadocRegistry.java:105) at org.netbeans.modules.javadoc.search.IndexBuilder.refreshIndex(IndexBuilder.java:175) at org.netbeans.modules.javadoc.search.IndexBuilder.run(IndexBuilder.java:103) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:539) [catch] at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:964)
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