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4.1 FCS 1) Have a web freeform project where web.xml is placed in non-standard place (e.g. in src) i.e. there's no any WEB-INF diretory 2) Invoke Servlet wizard 3) NPE - see attachment
Created attachment 23074 [details] java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.web.freeform.WebModules$FFWebModule.getDeploymentDescriptor(WebModules.java:290)
I suppose that same problems appears in other web.xml related wizards (listener, filter, etc.)
*** Issue 60503 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I can take this.
fixed http://web.netbeans.org/source/browse/web/freeform/src/org/netbeans/modules/web/freeform/WebModules.java?r1=1.8&r2=1.9