Bug 62612 NPE in EclipsePreferences.internalGet(...)
I200405171219 + ZRH smoke plugin-export 20040518_1115 After start and shutdown of the Buildmeister runtime I found the following exception. It looks like getTextPreferenceKey() in AbstractAnnotationHover#getHoverInfo() at line 83 returned null. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.internalGet(EclipsePreferences.java:479) at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.get(EclipsePreferences.java:349) at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.PreferenceForwarder.contains(PreferenceForwarder.java:181) at org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin$CompatibilityPreferenceStore.contains(AbstractUIPlugin.java:277) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getVisibleStore(ChainedPreferenceStore.java:525) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getBoolean(ChainedPreferenceStore.java:166) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.AbstractAnnotationHover.getHoverInfo(AbstractAnnotationHover.java:83) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.BestMatchHover.getHoverInfo(BestMatchHover.java:102) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.getHoverInfo(JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.java:69) at org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewerHoverManager$4.run(TextViewerHoverManager.java:161)
org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/javaeditor/JavaEditor.java
if (containingAnnotationPosition != null && (!currentAnnotation || nextAnnotation == null)) {
			annotationPosition.setOffset(containingAnnotationPosition.getOffset());
			annotationPosition.setLength(containingAnnotationPosition.getLength());
			return containingAnnotation;
		}
		if (nextAnnotationPosition != null) {
			annotationPosition.setOffset(nextAnnotationPosition.getOffset());
			annotationPosition.setLength(nextAnnotationPosition.getLength());
		}
		
		return nextAnnotation;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Returns the annotation overlapping with the given range or <code>null</code>.
	 * 
	 * @param offset the region offset
	 * @param length the region length
	 * @return the found annotation or <code>null</code>
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	private Annotation getAnnotation(int offset, int length) {
		IAnnotationModel model= getDocumentProvider().getAnnotationModel(getEditorInput());
		Iterator e= new JavaAnnotationIterator(model, true, true);
		while (e.hasNext()) {
			Annotation a= (Annotation) e.next();
			if (!isNavigationTarget(a))
				continue;
				
			Position p= model.getPosition(a);