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OPP Fails With java.lang.NullPointerException Error (Doc ID 779670.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 08, 2024

Applies to:

BI Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) - Version 12.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
 

Symptoms

In Oracle Applications R12:
when attempting to generate large PDF reports (contains large number of pages) for some concurrent programs OPP services stopped working and found the following java exception in the OPP log file:

......
[1/29/09 10:28:29 AM] [UNEXPECTED] [61278:RT1815897] java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:57)
at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:630)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.elements.FOLayoutPrimarySet.addChild(FOLayoutPrimarySet.java:61)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.elements.FOObject.init(FOObject.java:102)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.elements.FOSimplePagePrimary.init(FOSimplePagePrimary.java:85)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.FOHandler.startElement(FOHandler.java:334)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.FOHandler.startElement(FOHandler.java:188)
at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLTMerger.startElement(XSLTMerger.java:55)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLContentHandler.startElement(XMLContentHandler.java:181)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1280)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:328)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:295)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:201)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.FOProcessingEngine.process(FOProcessingEngine.java:307)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.generate(FOProcessor.java:1045)
at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.runProcessTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:5916)
at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3452)
at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3541)
at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.XMLPublisherProcessor.process(XMLPublisherProcessor.java:244)
at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.OPPRequestThread.run(OPPRequestThread.java:172)
......

 Workaround:
Bounce the OPP Services.

Cause

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