Classpath Nullpointer error

[nnani]

Hello All,

Basically , I am a database guy. So Please don't mind If my questions are sounding silly.
Here is the problem that I have got.

I am trying to install a hadoop distribution named hadoopdb.

I was instructed to place installed hadoopdb.jar file under $HADOOP_HOME/lib

Basically the downloaded hadoopdb package contains 3 files

1. Catalog.properties file
2. hadoopdb.jar file
3, SMS_dist.tar.gz

The third file is nothing but Hive distribution of hadoop.

Now the issues is according to the quick start guide

To generate a HadoopDB.xml file we need to use command

java -cp hadoopdb.jar edu.yale.cs.hadoopdb.catalog.SimpleCatalogGenerator path_to_Catalog.properties

When I use the above command

[hduser@node1 lib]$ java -cp hadoopdb.jar edu.yale.cs.hadoopdb.catalog.SimpleCatalogGenerator /usr/local/hdb/hadoopdb/Catalog.properties                       
 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at edu.yale.cs.hadoopdb.catalog.SimpleCatalogGenerator.parseArguments(SimpleCatalogGenerator.java:71)
        at edu.yale.cs.hadoopdb.catalog.SimpleCatalogGenerator.main(SimpleCatalogGenerator.java:54)
[hduser@node1 lib]$

I am completely clueless about this. As I cannot find the above mentioned packages(SimpleCatalogGenerator) anywhere .
Can anyone please help me to solve this issue. It is very important for me.

Thanks

[Norm]

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at edu.yale.cs.hadoopdb.catalog.SimpleCatalogGenerato r.parseArguments(SimpleCatalogGenerator.java:71)

The error message says that there is a variable at line 71 that has a null value when that line is executed.
Look at line 71, find the variable with the null value and then backtrack to see why it does not have a valid value.

[nnani]

Hello,

Which file to look for the line 71 in.I don't see the packages anywhere in the specified directory or on my system.

[Tolls]

The code is in the jar file.
Whether there is source code I have no idea.

[Norm]

Which file to look for the line 71 in

The error message says this:
SimpleCatalogGenerator.java:71

[nnani]

Hello,

I wanted some more information on this.
The quick start guide says just to download the hadoopdb.jar file and place it under $HADOOP_HOME/lib

while the package contains two other files too.
1. Catalog properties
2. hadoopdb.jar
3. SMS_dist.tar.gz ( Hive distribution )

While there is one more tutorial on a famous blog which describes the following step like this

Now we can download HadoopDB. I'm going to download both the jar file and check out the source from Subversion: Now we can download HadoopDB. After downloading the jar file, we need to copy it into Hadoop's lib directory so it has access to it:

cp hadoopdb.jar $HADOOP_HOME/lib

I also checked out the source code from Subversion in case I needed to re-build the jar file at any time:

vn co https://hadoopdb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hadoopdb hadoopdb

This is how the person describes the following step.
Can you please tell me what difference does it make between the quick start guide step and the tutorial on blog step.

[Tolls]

As far as running the code, nothing at all.
The only thing the second one has is the downloading of the source files, which are not required to run the code.

This is really not something we can handle here, we're a coding/development forum.
Since this is not your code you will have to check with the people that wrote it as to why you are having problems.