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From Sridatta: on an ide resinstall, when using a combination of stop/start from runtime tab and deploy, there is a NPE... Regression introduced recently via an otpimization for calculating if the server is local or not. Demoblocker :-( library-inclusion-in-archive: library-inclusion-in-manifest: compile: compile-jsps: do-dist: dist: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.sun.ide.dm.SunDeploymentManager.calculateIsLocal(SunDeploymentManager.java:706) at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.sun.ide.dm.SunDeploymentManager.<init>(SunDeploymentManager.java:154) at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.sun.ide.dm.SunDeploymentFactory.getDisconnectedDeploymentManager(SunDeploymentFactory.java:91) at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.Server.getDisconnectedDeploymentManager(Server.java:138)
Easy fix...
regression introduced by fixes for 72693 and 71247.
fixed.