Publishing Failed in RAD 7 for WebSphere Portal Server 6

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4151775

Question

I'm trying to publish my portal application to WPS 6. I get the message "Could not publish to the server". Moreover the Details button is disabled.
I checked IBM\WebSphere\PortalServer\log folder, I could not find any related logs for this error. Please suggest ways / ideas / workarounds to proceed / resolve this issue.
RAD : 7.0.0.4
WebSphere Portal: 6.0

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Solution

Below is the steps i used to identify the issue.
1. I enabled Error Log View in Eclipse. (Windows -> Show View -> Error Log).
2. The Error log details gives sufficient information and stack trace to identify the issue.

     In this particular case, I found the exception to be

java.lang.NullPointerException at com.ibm.etools.portal.server.tools.v6.internal.WPServerBehaviour.getSourceFiles(Unknown Source) Problem occurs if the project contains a file without any extension. Solution: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK55843

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