I'm using the Gearman off of github. I can't seem to find out how to build a Gearman example worker I keep running into issues with NPE. I've tried many methods and searched for documentation on what the proper steps are to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.gearman.Gearman.createGearman(Gearman.java:53) at worker.WorkerClient.<init>(WorkerClient.java:33) at worker.Main.main(Main.java:32) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Properties$LineReader.readLine(Properties.java:434) at java.util.Properties.load0(Properties.java:353) at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:341) at org.gearman.context.GearmanContext.loadProperties(GearmanContext.java:175) at org.gearman.context.GearmanContext.loadProperties(GearmanContext.java:158) at org.gearman.context.GearmanContext.loadProperties(GearmanContext.java:143) at org.gearman.context.GearmanContext.initProperties(GearmanContext.java:74) at org.gearman.context.GearmanContext.<clinit>(GearmanContext.java:66) ... 3 more

` package worker;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.gearman.Gearman; import org.gearman.GearmanFunction; import org.gearman.GearmanServer; import org.gearman.GearmanWorker; import org.gearman.impl.GearmanImpl;

public class WorkerClient {

private GearmanWorker gearmanWorker;
private Gearman gearman;
private GearmanImpl gearmanImpl;


public WorkerClient(String host, int port, String functionName, GearmanFunction function) throws IOException {

    if (host==null || functionName==null || function==null)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("parameter is null");

    // Create a GearmanWorker
    //gearmanImpl = new GearmanImpl(); 
    gearman = GearmanImpl.createGearman();
    gearmanWorker = gearman.createGearmanWorker();
    //gearmanWorker = gearmanImpl.createGearmanWorker();

    //add remote gearman server
    GearmanServer gearmanServer = gearman.createGearmanServer(host, port);
    gearmanWorker.addServer(gearmanServer);

    // Register function to start working on gearman calls
    gearmanWorker.addFunction(functionName, function);


}

public void shutdown() {
    this.gearman.shutdown();
}

public String testPayload(String payload) {
    System.out.println("run payload now");
    return "payload returned";
}

}

package crawler_worker;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.gearman.; import org.gearman.impl.;

import crawler_worker.WorkerClient;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    if (args.length == 0 || args.length > 3) {
        usage();
        return;
    }
    String host = Constants.GEARMAN_DEFAULT_TCP_HOST;
    int port = Constants.GEARMAN_DEFAULT_TCP_PORT;
    String payload = args[args.length - 1];
    for (String arg : args) {
        if (arg.startsWith("-h")) {
            host = arg.substring(2);
        } else if (arg.startsWith("-p")) {
            port = Integer.parseInt(arg.substring(2));
        }
    }
    GearmanFunctionTest gearmanFunctionTest = new GearmanFunctionTest();

    try {
        WorkerClient worker;
        worker = new WorkerClient(host, port, "testPayload", gearmanFunctionTest );
        System.out.println(worker.testPayload(payload));                               
                worker.shutdown();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }



}

public static void usage() {
    String[] usage = {
        "usage: org.gearman.example.ReverseClient [-h<host>] [-p<port>] "  
                "<string>",
        "\t-h<host> - job server host",
        "\t-p<port> - job server port",
        "\n\tExample: java org.gearman.example.ReverseClient Foo",
        "\tExample: java org.gearman.example.ReverseClient -h127.0.0.1 "  
                "-p4730 Bar", //
    };

    for (String line : usage) {
        System.err.println(line);                                           //NOPMD
    }
}

} `