When the webserver restarts while an echo2 application is active with an active Tree, the Echo2 application crashes when the page is reloaded. This is caused by a nullPointerException in Tree, because the expandedStack and expandedState fields in echopointng.Tree are transient, and thus not set when the Tree is deserialized.
Stack trace is:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at...
2007-09-27 11:08:37 UTC in Echo Point