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during startup of NB3.4B2 I got a NullPointerException. I'm not sure if this problem is similar to issue 23216 but I created the tomcat404/work directories manually at nothing changed. Only disabling the module will solve the problem (did not need it in the moment). But whatever you do with this problem it shouldn't bring a NPE. I use Netbeans 3.4B2 (build 200206201555) on Sun JDK 1.4.0_01 and Win NT4. If you have any other question, please ask me.
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It looks like dup of 23216. work is not the only empty dir here. Line 463 refers to logs dir. Probably you get similar stack trace but with line 462 insead of 463 before you attempted to create work dir. Can you extract your IDE including the empty dirs?
Ok I did it. Now I get the execption in Line 464. There are now some empty directories within the tomcat install directory, but in the user directory there is only the log and work directory.
It's really a duplicit bug to 23216. It's correct - only tomcat404/conf,tomcat404/logs,tomcat404/webapps and tomcat404/work should be copied at the first start from netbeans_home/tomcat404 to user_dir/tomcat404_base. The only empty are tomcat404/logs and tomcat404/work. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 23216 ***