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Bug 119196 - java.lang.NullPointerException when creating javadoc
Summary: java.lang.NullPointerException when creating javadoc
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: usersguide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Java (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: Sun Windows Vista
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Unknown
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Reported: 2007-10-17 11:59 UTC by pravin_axe
Modified: 2007-10-17 12:24 UTC (History)
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Description pravin_axe 2007-10-17 11:59:41 UTC 
When i try to generate javadoc , I get the following errors. Pls give suggestion to fix this problem
Building tree for all the packages and classes...
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.PackageUseWriter.generatePackageUse(PackageUseWriter.java:180)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.PackageUseWriter.generatePackageList(PackageUseWriter.java:124)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.PackageUseWriter.generatePackageUse(PackageUseWriter.java:110)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.PackageUseWriter.generatePackageUseFile(PackageUseWriter.java:99)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.PackageUseWriter.generate(PackageUseWriter.java:78)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.ClassUseWriter.generate(ClassUseWriter.java:116)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.generateOtherFiles(HtmlDoclet.java:92)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.startGeneration(AbstractDoclet.java:122)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.AbstractDoclet.start(AbstractDoclet.java:64)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDoclet.start(HtmlDoclet.java:42)
        at com.sun.tools.doclets.standard.Standard.start(Standard.java:23)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.invoke(DocletInvoker.java:215)
        at com.sun.tools.javadoc.DocletInvoker.start(DocletInvoker.java:91)
        at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.parseAndExecute(Start.java:340)
        at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Start.begin(Start.java:128)
        at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.execute(Main.java:41)
        at com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.main(Main.java:31)
Comment 1 Jan Pokorsky 2007-10-17 12:24:01 UTC 
How does it relate to NetBeans? According to the stack trace it is a JDK, particularly javadoc tool, bug. Please file it
at http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport.