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When you try to start/stop Tomcat, working around the issues of invalid node (47355) and disabled menu options (47189) (you can simply click on the plus sign on the Tomcat node to avoid them) the service window will crash when trying to start up Tomcat (it is saying it is stopped): Annotation: Exception occurred in Request Processor java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.tomcat5.ide.StartTomcat$StartRunnable.run(StartTomcat.java:352) at org.openide.util.Task.run(Task.java:136) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:330) [catch] at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:686)
Cleaning the userdir should help. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 40659 ***