I just created a simple java project using Eclipse following the steps on the Microsoft Website http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh690944.aspx.
When I click finish on the "Windows Azure Deployment Project" dialog I get the following error dialog box.
Errors occurred during the build. Errors running builder 'Windows Azure Dependency Builder' on project 'AzureSample'. java.lang.NullPointerException
I'm using jdk7 and Tomcat 7.
Can anyone advice on what I may be missing?
I had the same issue. I think the issue stems from a missing/corrupt item in the Components section ( Windows Azure Role -> Components).
I'm not sure because I can't reproduce it. I removed my deployment project and started Eclipse (solves problems more often then it should).
What I did change however is that I pointed the Tomcat 7 to a freshly downloaded and extracted zip. I deleted the first deployment project (that was throwing the error you described) and started over. Then I did the following: 1. download apache-tomcat-7.0.39 64bit Tomcat zip file. 2. unzip to directory 3. Windows Azure Role -> Server Configuration -> Server set "locally" to the directory in step 2.
A symptom I had which went away too was that in Components ( Windows Azure Role -> Components) if I clicked on anything it would throw an error...and I was clicking there because there was an empty import in the middle of the list.
