I'm writing a simple application to create a Documentum folder structure from a directory structure on disk. When I run the application through SpringSource Tool Suite, it works fine. When I package it as a jar, with all dependencies, and run it, I receive the following error:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.documentum.fc.common.impl.preferences.PreferencesManager.locateMainPersistentStore(PreferencesManager.java:372)
at com.documentum.fc.common.impl.preferences.PreferencesManager.readPersistentProperties(PreferencesManager.java:333)
at com.documentum.fc.common.impl.preferences.PreferencesManager.<init>(PreferencesManager.java:41)
at com.documentum.fc.common.DfPreferences.initialize(DfPreferences.java:64)
at com.documentum.fc.common.DfPreferences.getInstance(DfPreferences.java:43)
at com.documentum.fc.client.DfSimpleDbor.getDefaultDbor(DfSimpleDbor.java:78)
at com.documentum.fc.client.DfSimpleDbor.<init>(DfSimpleDbor.java:66)
at com.documentum.fc.client.DfClient$ClientImpl.<init>(DfClient.java:344)
at com.documentum.fc.client.DfClient.<clinit>(DfClient.java:754)
Here is the line in my code where this error occurs:
IDfClient client = DfClient.getLocalClient();
The jar includes the dfc.properties file, which I specify on the command line using
-Ddfc.properties.file=dfc.properties.dev
For the record, the full command line looks like this (slightly anonymized):
java -Ddfc.properties.file=dfc.properties.dev -jar MyTest-jar-with-dependencies.jar baseDirectory baseDocumentumFolder
Thanks much for your time!