Weblogic Servlet: "FICMaster" failed to preload on startup in Web application Error During Deployment After Cloning (Doc ID 2455023.1)

Last updated on APRIL 09, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

Trying to deploy the OFSAA Application in Weblogic which is installed using Production Mode. It is not getting Deployed. It is showing Failed as Status in Deployment although. Previously it was getting Deployed when Weblogic was Installed Using Development mode.  To properly test Weblogic in Production mode, it was installed using Prod Mode on a different Server.


ERROR
#### <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <[severity-value: 8] [rid: 0] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN] > <Servlet: "FICMaster" failed to preload on startup in Web application: "ofsaa".
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.iflex.fic.ficml.JSPInitBean.initialize(JSPInitBean.java:191)
at com.iflex.fic.ficml.FICMaster.init(FICMaster.java:141)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:343)

It is confirmed that FICServer is up and running without error on Application Server.

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

Steps followed for Deployment:
1>In $FIC_HOME PortC.jar Utility is there. Run java -jar PortC.jar DMP in putty and changed the Web_Local_Path, Weblogic_Home, Weblogic_Domain_Home, Web_Server_IP_Address as per new Installation of WebLogic in DefaultPorts.properties and updated it through java -jar PortC.jar UPD.
2>From ficweb run./ant.sh in putty. It generated war and ear files in ficweb.
3>Copied this ear/war file to the new webserver which is at production mode in the respective folder and extracted them.
4>Started WebLogic .
5>Once WebLogic was up and running we deployed this ear file. after some time it came into failed state.

Cause

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