Re: [abbot-users] Null pointer exception

[Timothy W. <tw...@oc...>]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Henk wrote:

> I'm new to Abbot and wanted to try it on a small AWT/Swing GUI  
> application.
> I am using Abbot v 1.0.0rc1, JRE 1.4.2. This resulted in a NULL  
> pointer exception:
>
> C:\macro\tools\Abbot\abbot-1.0.0rc1\abbot-1.0.0rc1>java - 
> Dwind.base=C:\WindRiver\components\dcom-2.3 -jar lib/abbot.jar
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>        at com.windriver.VxDCOMWizard.ParameterDialog.getName 
> (ParameterDialog.java:413)
>        at abbot.util.AWT.isHeavyweightPopup(AWT.java:332)
>        at abbot.util.AWT.isTransientPopup(AWT.java:406)

Notice which class is throwing a NPE?  Notice how it is not a class  
that is part of the abbot framework?  Post a bug with WindRiver;  
according to Sun's javadoc for Component.getName, that method is not  
supposed to throw a NullPointerException.