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I have a init method in a managed bean. This method is being called from bounded taskflow default activity.  I need to set the values of the RichInputText fileds inside the method. I have the following code in my init method. I get null pointer exception. Please help.

                String lastName= "test";

                this.familyname.setValue((Object) lastname);

I am getting null pointer exception

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.oim.view.UpdateUserBean.init(UpdateUserBean.java:1495)