Project: Eclipse_Platform_UI
Bug 328814 [Compatibility] NPE while opening the model editor
Reported: 2010-10-27 08:22:54 | Status: verified fixed

I tried to open /org.eclipse.e4.demo.simpleide.navigator/xmi/contextViewMenuFragment.e4xmi from the Package Explorer, and I got the following error: eclipse.buildId=I20101026-0203 java.fullversion=JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux x86-32 jvmxi3260sr8-20100401_55940 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled) J9VM - 20100401_055940 JIT - r9_20100401_15339 GC - 20100308_AA BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -data /opt/pwebster/workspaces/e4 Error Wed Oct 27 08:25:57 EDT 2010 Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface". java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2219) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.access$14(WorkbenchPage.java:2177) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$6.run(WorkbenchPage.java:2159) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2155) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2139) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2130) at org.eclipse.ui.ide.IDE.openEditor(IDE.java:651) at org.eclipse.ui.ide.IDE.openEditor(IDE.java:610) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.EditorUtility.openInEditor(EditorUtility.java:354) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.EditorUtility.openInEditor(EditorUtility.java:164) at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.OpenAction.run(OpenAction.java:219) at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.OpenAction.run(OpenAction.java:198) at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.SelectionDispatchAction.dispatchRun(SelectionDispatchAction.java:274) at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.SelectionDispatchAction.run(SelectionDispatchAction.java:250) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.packageview.PackageExplorerActionGroup.handleOpen(PackageExplorerActionGroup.java:373) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.packageview.PackageExplorerPart$4.open(PackageExplorerPart.java:526) at org.eclipse.ui.OpenAndLinkWithEditorHelper$InternalListener.open(OpenAndLinkWithEditorHelper.java:48) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$2.run(StructuredViewer.java:845) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:49) at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:175) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.fireOpen(StructuredViewer.java:843) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.handleOpen(StructuredViewer.java:1131) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$6.handleOpen(StructuredViewer.java:1235) at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.fireOpenEvent(OpenStrategy.java:264) at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$2(OpenStrategy.java:258) at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$1.handleEvent(OpenStrategy.java:298) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1258) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3538) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3159) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$6.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:783) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:692) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:104) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$3.run(Workbench.java:545) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:527) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:115) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:369) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:48) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:600) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:621) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:576) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1409)

Files changed in fix:
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/services/ServiceLocator.java