Developer Studio's local server fails to start with a NullPointerException in the underlying Ant/NetBeans start-server task, even though the project build itself succeeds and all libraries are confirmed synced — what resolves this?

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Reinstalling WebLogic and recreating the project root (re-running the project-root-creation script/process) resolved this specific NullPointerException in practice, even though the build itself was already succeeding — this points to the local server's own WebLogic installation or project-root metadata being in a bad state independent of whether the actual code compiles correctly.

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