Well, I solved my own issue (the first one), but found more... I apologize in advance if this is 'old news' to most ME developers ...
Loading the above IDAT resulted in this error, which is actually quite helpful:
So I made this change to the IDAT, redeployed, and tried again. (In my environment, each cycle takes about 10 minutes)
That fixed my status problem, and exposed my next error:
My first attempt to fix this also failed:
... with this error:
The underlying details are:
To make the above easier to find here:
com.sap.me.plant.SiteApplicationBean.reloadInitialData(com.sap.me.system.base.ApplicationVO) throws com.sap.me.frame.BasicBOBeanException method on bean instance com.sap.me.plant.SiteApplicationBean@25bc678a for bean sap.com/me~ear*xml|me.plant.ejb-6.1.4.16.jar*xml|SiteApplication in application sap.com/me~ear.; nested exception is: com.visiprise.frame.service.ext.ExtensionExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.lang.Object.toString() of a null object loaded from local variable 'propValue'
Next attempt:
That produced exactly the same exception.
Next attempt:
... results in my next post ...