'Uncaught init() exception created by servlet FICMaster' Error Starting Websphere (Doc ID 2060844.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 08, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

After installing Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA) 7.3, and starting the Reveleus Server successfully, you get errors when starting or deploying Websphere:

[8/25/15 14:37:30:816 EDT] 0000000a SystemOut     O Setting ip: <servername>
[8/25/15 14:37:30:817 EDT] 0000000a SystemOut     O setting port:9999
[8/25/15 14:37:30:817 EDT] 0000000a SystemOut     O %%%%..2  DYNAMICSERVCIEMANAGER...IN WEBSERVER INIT MODE
[8/25/15 14:39:58:289 EDT] 00000004 WSJdbcConnect I   DSRA8780I: By default, the connection property, TransactionIsolationLevel, is matched for shareable connections based on the current state of the connection rather than the original connection request. You may use the data source custom property, connectionSharing, to configure this behavior.
[8/25/15 14:49:12:997 EDT] 00000011 ThreadMonitor W   WSVR0605W: Thread "server.startup : 0" (0000000a) has been active for 715268 milliseconds and may be hung.  There is/are 1 thread(s) in total in the server that may be hung.
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[8/25/15 14:53:15:918 EDT] 0000000a FfdcProvider  W com.ibm.ws.ffdc.impl.FfdcProvider logIncident FFDC1003I: FFDC Incident emitted on /opt/was7/app/profiles/p-c72-b/logs/ffdc/as-c72-b-app-4_4c7c4c7c_11.11.11_11.11.11.8722869724608392120921.txt com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletInstance.init 181
[8/25/15 14:53:15:921 EDT] 0000000a ServletWrappe E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper init SRVE0100E: Uncaught init() exception created by servlet FICMaster in application <app>: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.iflex.fic.ficml.JSPInitBean.initialize(JSPInitBean.java:191)
    at com.iflex.fic.ficml.FICMaster.init(FICMaster.java:138)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:364)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.init(ServletWrapperImpl.java:171)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.initialize(ServletWrapper.java:1877)
    at com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.extension.WebExtensionProcessor.createServletWrapper(WebExtensionProcessor.java:98)
etc.

As a result of these errors, Websphere fails to start.

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