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From a freshly booted computer, start up netbeans 4.0 beta that has no projects open. Create a new web application project in an otherwise empty directory. Run the "index.jsp" file without any editing. Dialog box appears: A java.lang.IllegalStateException exception has occurred. Please report this at http://www.netbeans.org/issues.html, including a copy of your messages.log file as an attachment. The messages.log file is located in your /home/drs/.netbeans/4.0beta2/var/log folder. Followed by the dialog: Exception during initialization of HTML browser module And finally the dialog A java.lang.NullPointerException exception has occurred. Please report this at http://www.netbeans.org/issues.html, including a copy of your messages.log file as an attachment. The messages.log file is located in your /home/drs/.netbeans/4.0beta2/var/log folder. I'll attach the dialog after commiting. Dave
Created attachment 19244 [details] messages.log file
Favourite 40beta2 bug - see original issue for workaround. Fixed in RC builds. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 48590 ***