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After examining the PUT response generated during this error, as revealed by Firebug, I saw that three groups/lists didn't have all their fields included. I examined the code for these. The first, nagpraClaimNoteList, a repeating note field, had code identical to another (working) repeating notes field (comments in collectionobject). The second, sentToOversightCommitteeGroup, had code identical to another (working) group in nagpraclaim.
Solution: unknown.
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Resolved: Variants of "Status:400:Create request failed: javax.ejb.EJBException: java.lang.NullPointerException"
As I understand it, the NullPointerException error indicates that something (e.g., name) is wrong with a (field) name somewhere in a schema, resulting in it not being found when it is needed. What follows is a selection of some of the different causes of this annoyingly vague error message.
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