HTTP Status 500 - Servlet.init() for servlet tibco_administrator threw exception

type Exception report

message Servlet.init() for servlet tibco_administrator threw exception

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet tibco_administrator threw exception
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:503)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:421)
org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1070)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:611)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:314)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

root cause

com.tibco.pof.entity.EntityStoreException: java.lang.NullPointerException
====>  com.tibco.pof.entitystore.AbstractEntityStore.initTransactionNotifier(AbstractEntityStore.java:501) <=====

 com.tibco.pof.entitystore.db.DBEntityStore.init(DBEntityStore.java:564)

  com.tibco.pof.entitystore.EntityStoreManager.a(EntityStoreManager.java:221)

  com.tibco.pof.entitystore.EntityStoreManager.getEntityStore(EntityStoreManager.java:202)

  com.tibco.pof.entitystore.EntityStoreManager.getReadOnlyEntityDomain(EntityStoreManager.java:333)

  com.tibco.pof.entitystore.EntityStoreManager.getReadOnlyEntityDomain(EntityStoreManager.java:327)

  com.tibco.pof.entitystore.EntityStoreManager.getReadOnlyEntityDomain(EntityStoreManager.java:312)

  com.tibco.pof.admindomain.AdministrationDomain.instance(AdministrationDomain.java:181)

  com.tibco.administrator.AdministratorServlet.a(AdministratorServlet.java:835)

  com.tibco.administrator.AdministratorServlet.destroy(AdministratorServlet.java:928)

  com.tibco.administrator.AdministratorServlet.init(AdministratorServlet.java:155)

  org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)

  org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)

  org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)

  org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)

  org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1002)

  org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)

  org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)

  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

  java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Article 000016794 regarding BW issue for "com.tibco.pof.entitystore.AbstractEntityStore.initTransactionNotifier(AbstractEntityStore.java:501)".