Bug 308629 [Compatibility] NPE thrown when restarting Eclipse
It's trying to add bindings to the application and failing. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.emf.common.util.AbstractEList.getNonDuplicates(AbstractEList.java:1167) at org.eclipse.emf.common.util.AbstractEList.addAll(AbstractEList.java:372) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.model.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.eSet(ApplicationImpl.java:417) at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.BasicEObjectImpl.eSet(BasicEObjectImpl.java:1081) at org.eclipse.e4.workbench.ui.internal.EMFModelDeltaSet.apply(EMFModelDeltaSet.java:31) at org.eclipse.e4.workbench.ui.internal.ModelReconcilingService.applyDeltas(ModelReconcilingService.java:54) at org.eclipse.e4.workbench.ui.internal.ModelReconcilingService.applyDeltas(ModelReconcilingService.java:36) at org.eclipse.e4.workbench.ui.internal.ResourceHandler.loadMostRecentModel(ResourceHandler.java:173) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.internal.E4Application.loadApplicationModel(E4Application.java:194) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.internal.E4Application.createE4Workbench(E4Application.java:129)
bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench/src/org/eclipse/e4/workbench/ui/internal/XMLModelReconciler.java
* @param featureName
	 *            the name of the feature
	 * @return <code>true</code> if this particular feature is a reference to another object,
	 *         <code>false</code> otherwise
	 */
	private static boolean isSingleReference(String featureName) {
		return isDirectReference(featureName) || isIndirectReference(featureName);
	}
	/**
	 * Returns whether the feature is a list of object references.
	 * 
	 * @param featureName
	 *            the name of the feature
	 * @return <code>true</code> if this particular feature is referring to a list of object
	 *         references, <code>false</code> otherwise
	 */
	private static boolean isChainedReference(String featureName) {
		
		return featureName.equals(ELEMENTCONTAINER_CHILDREN_ATTNAME) ||
		
				featureName.equals(BINDINGTABLES_BINDINGS_ATTNAME) ||
				
				featureName.equals(PART_MENUS_ATTNAME) ||
				
				featureName.equals(APPLICATION_COMMANDS_ATTNAME) ||
				
				featureName.equals(HANDLERCONTAINER_HANDLERS_ATTNAME);
	}
	private static boolean isUnorderedChainedAttribute(String featureName) {
		return featureName.equals(APPLICATIONELEMENT_TAGS_ATTNAME);