{"id":5356,"date":"2013-02-07T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:46:19","slug":"filenet-workplace-fails-during-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=5356","title":{"rendered":"FileNet &#8211; Workplace fails during startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an issue today after having installed the application engine and then the latest fixpack. WebSphere reported that the application started just fine, but when accessing http:\/\/my_server\/Workplace it failed with a NullPointerException. Part of the stacktrace<br \/>\n<!-- codeblock lang=\"\" line=\"1\" --><\/p>\n<pre><code>[07.02.13 18:10:45:986 CET] 0000002e SystemOut     O Loading logging config: null<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><!-- \/codeblock --> This was in test, in the dev environment where it is working SystemOut.log reported<br \/>\n<!-- codeblock lang=\"\" line=\"1\" --><\/p>\n<pre><code>[2\/7\/13 18:39:24:274 CET] 00000043 SystemOut     O Loading logging config: D:\\\\AEShare\\\\FileNet\\\\Config\\\\AE\\log4j.properties<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><!-- \/codeblock --><\/p>\n<p>After a lot of cursing it turned out that the problem was caused by Windows and access to the share where the log4j-file was located. As a wild guess I granted access to &#8220;Everyone&#8221; and voila&#8230;it worked&#8230;Windows shares&#8230;simply hate it. WebSphere running as local system account, did not cause any problems in the dev environment, but test&#8230;don&#8217;t know why yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an issue today after having installed the application engine and then the latest fixpack. WebSphere reported that the application started just fine, but when accessing http:\/\/my_server\/Workplace it failed with a NullPointerException. Part of the stacktrace [07.02.13 18:10:45:986 CET] 0000002e SystemOut O Loading logging config: null This was in test, in the dev environment where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12263,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}