RE: StandAloneAnnie - NullPointerException

[Papagiannakopoulos P. <pap...@au...>]

Thank you very much! I'v used the following line and everything seem to work
now. 
 
System.setProperty(GATE_HOME_SYSPROP_KEY,"c:\\Program Files\\Gate 3.0 beta
1\\");
 
But isn't this something that the system sould already know about? I
installed Gate from the binary distribution.
Is it some kind of enviromental variable that i can change from somewhere?


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From: own...@dc...
[mailto:own...@dc...] On Behalf Of Marin Dimitrov
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 6:34 PM
To: Papagiannakopoulos Panagiotis; gat...@dc...
Subject: Re: StandAloneAnnie - NullPointerException


 
have you set the GATE_HOME correctly?
 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Papagiannakopoulos  <mailto:pap...@au...> Panagiotis 
To: gat...@dc... 
Sent: Monday, 11 October, 2004 17:46
Subject: StandAloneAnnie - NullPointerException

Dear Gate Experts,
    i am having troubles running StandAloneAnnie. (I've downloaded the
sample code from your web site). After compiling it successfully i get the
following error :
 
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at gate.Gate.InitCreoleRepositories(gate.java:190)
    at gate.Gate.init(Gate.java:124)
    at StandAloneAnnie.main(StandAloneAnnie.java:94)
 
Exception in thread "main"
 
After recompiling the gate source code (i just inserted some
System.out.println() for debbuging purpoces) i noticed that in
gate.initCreole repositories the following command returns null to
pluginsHome
 
File pluginsHome = new File(System.getProperty(GATE_HOME_SYSPROP_KEY)
 
As a result the command plugins.listFiles() returns null. 
 
Thanks for your help.
 
Papagiannakopoulos Panagiotis