issueManager.createIssue() throws NullPointerException

We plan to implement Jira in our company and for this we must prove that regular updates from our old issue tracking system are possible. For this I am writing a Jira service that should get all the issues that have changed in the old system and create/update the issues in Jira.

As a first step I try to simply create a trivial issue from a my own service that is running in Jira:

public void run()

{ ... ImportUtils.setSubvertSecurityScheme(true); // stolen form Mantis import code - necessary? ImportUtils.setIndexIssues(false); IssueManager issueManager = ManagerFactory.getIssueManager(); GenericValue project = ManagerFactory.getProjectManager().getProjectByName("Test Project"); Map fields = new HashMap(); fields.put("projectId", project.getLong("id")); fields.put(IssueFieldConstants.REPORTER, "admin"); fields.put(IssueFieldConstants.ASSIGNEE, "admin"); fields.put(IssueFieldConstants.ISSUE_TYPE, "" + IssueFieldConstants.NEWFEATURE_TYPE_ID); fields.put(IssueFieldConstants.SUMMARY, "automatic test bug"); fields.put(IssueFieldConstants.STATUS, "" + IssueFieldConstants.OPEN_STATUS_ID); GenericValue issue = issueManager.createIssue("admin", fields); }

This code throws the following error

2005-06-09 19:19:13,934 WARN [sims.jira.service.WatsonUpdateService] Exception running watson update service: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.SimpleWorkflowManager.createIssue(SimpleWorkflowManager.java:125)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:262)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.CachingIssueManager.createIssue(CachingIssueManager.java:71)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at com.atlassian.util.profiling.object.ObjectProfiler.profiledInvoke(ObjectProfiler.java:71)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.DelegatingInvocationHandler.invoke(DelegatingInvocationHandler.java:27)
at $Proxy2.createIssue(Unknown Source)
at com.sims.jira.service.WatsonUpdateService.run(WatsonUpdateService.java:71)
at com.atlassian.jira.service.JiraServiceContainer.run(JiraServiceContainer.java:59)
at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.execute(ServiceRunner.java:50)
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:191)
at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:516)

Any ideas? I tried for hours but could not fix it...

Thank you very much