Hi Guys,

let me start off with a disclaimer, I am not a pro at java, but have been playing with it for some years. Therefore I do not have the skills to dig deeper (or even know how to go about it).

Now to the issue:
I tried a very simple example which creates a WebView and then tries to connect to Twitter using twitter4j and then also separately using scribe-java. Both always end in the same null pointer, making me think that maybe the issue is with javafx and not with the two other libraries (possible incorrect assumption - but do not know where to go other than here). Hopefully you guys can either confirm or reject based on the following issue raised in the forums:

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2247912&tstart=0

The code in question is posted there and is quite basic. If any further details are required, I will be happy to provide them.

A copy of the main issue is pasted below:

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package webtest;
 
import java.io.IOException;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.web.WebEngine;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import twitter4j.Twitter;
import twitter4j.TwitterException;
import twitter4j.TwitterFactory;
import twitter4j.auth.AccessToken;
import twitter4j.auth.RequestToken;
 
 
public class WebTest extends Application {
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Application.launch(WebTest.class, args);
    }
    
    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws TwitterException, IOException {
        primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World");
        Group root = new Group();
        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 800, 600, Color.LIGHTGREEN);
 
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.setVisible(true);
        
        WebView browser = new WebView();
        browser.setPrefSize(600, 400);
        
        WebEngine webEngine = new WebEngine();
        browser.setEngine(webEngine);
 
        Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
        twitter.setOAuthConsumer("{myKey}", "{mySecret}");
// Set break point here if you wish :)
        RequestToken requestToken = twitter.getOAuthRequestToken();
        if(requestToken.getAuthorizationURL()!=null){
            webEngine.load(requestToken.getAuthorizationURL());
        }
        
        root.getChildren().add(browser);
        //AccessToken accessToken = twitter.getOAuthAccessToken(requestToken,"1234567");
    }
}
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And null pointer:
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run:
Exception in Application start method
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1137)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(HttpURLConnection.java:2346)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:388)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpResponseImpl.<init>(HttpResponseImpl.java:35)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientImpl.request(HttpClientImpl.java:168)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientWrapper.request(HttpClientWrapper.java:65)
at twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientWrapper.post(HttpClientWrapper.java:102)
at twitter4j.auth.OAuthAuthorization.getOAuthRequestToken(OAuthAuthorization.java:121)
at twitter4j.auth.OAuthAuthorization.getOAuthRequestToken(OAuthAuthorization.java:104)
at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.getOAuthRequestToken(TwitterBaseImpl.java:271)
at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.getOAuthRequestToken(TwitterBaseImpl.java:264)
at webtest.WebTest.start(WebTest.java:48)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$3.run(LauncherImpl.java:112)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$3.run(PlatformImpl.java:87)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$2.run(PlatformImpl.java:65)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.access$100(WinApplication.java:29)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication$2.run(WinApplication.java:51)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.webpane.webkit.network.CookieJar$PolicyDelegateFilter.shouldAccept(CookieJar.java:41)
at com.sun.webpane.webkit.network.CookieManager.put(CookieManager.java:193)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:710)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:632)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1195)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:379)
... 16 more
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)

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Thank you for your time. It would be great to gain a better understanding if I am doing something incorrect or silly!