PLC4X: S7 Connection NullPointerException

Question

I want to read out a single DB Value from a S7-300 with PLC4X in Java with this code:

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager;
import org.apache.plc4x.java.api.PlcConnection;
import org.apache.plc4x.java.api.messages.PlcReadRequest;
import org.apache.plc4x.java.api.messages.PlcReadResponse;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;


public class S7Com {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(S7Com.class);

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String connectionString = "s7://192.168.1.102?remote-rack:0&remote-slot:2&controller-type:S7_300";

        try (PlcConnection plcConnection = new PlcDriverManager().getConnection(connectionString)) {
            
            // Check if this connection support reading of data.
            if (!plcConnection.getMetadata().canRead()) {
                logger.error("This connection doesn't support reading.");
                return;
            }
            
            // Create a new read request:
            PlcReadRequest.Builder builder = plcConnection.readRequestBuilder();
            builder.addItem("value", "%DB100:16.0:REAL");
            PlcReadRequest readRequest = builder.build();
            
            //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            // Read synchronously ...
            // NOTICE: the ".get()" immediately lets this thread pause until
            // the response is processed and available.
            logger.info("Synchronous request ...");
            PlcReadResponse syncResponse = readRequest.execute().get();

            // Simply iterating over the field names returned in the response.
            logger.info("Value[{}]: {}", "value", syncResponse.getObject("value"));
            
            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(1000);
            plcConnection.close();
            System.exit(0);
            
        } catch (Exception e) {
            logger.info("ERROR: {}", e.getMessage());
        }
    }

}  

But my code runs in some issues. First of all i have set the options for Remote Rack ,Remote Slot and Controller Type , but when i run the code, stants following in the message in the console:

[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.transport.tcp.TcpChannelFactory - Configuring Bootstrap with Configuration{local-rack=1, local-slot=1, remote-rack=0, remot-slot=0, pduSize=1024, maxAmqCaller=8, maxAmqCallee=8, controllerType='null'} 

The second issue resp. error comes, when the program try to read the DB Value:

[main] INFO org.test.plx4j.example.S7Com - ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException

The content of the pom.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.test</groupId>
    <artifactId>plx4j-example</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
            <artifactId>plc4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.0</version>
            <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
            <artifactId>plc4j-driver-s7</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.32</version>
            <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.23</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>
</project>

I have changed the version from plc4j to some other versions, but the issue remains the same.

At last the complete output of the console:

[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager - Instantiating new PLC Driver Manager with class loader jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@2cdf8d8a
[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager - Registering available drivers...
[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager - Registering driver for Protocol s7 (Siemens S7 (Basic))
[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.transport.tcp.TcpChannelFactory - Configuring Bootstrap with Configuration{local-rack=1, local-slot=1, remote-rack=0, remot-slot=0, pduSize=1024, maxAmqCaller=8, maxAmqCallee=8, controllerType='null'}
[nioEventLoopGroup-2-1] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.s7.readwrite.protocol.S7ProtocolLogic - S7 Driver running in ACTIVE mode.
[main] INFO org.test.plx4j.example.S7Com - Synchronous request ...
[main] INFO org.test.plx4j.example.S7Com - ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException
ObjectProcessor Bye!
EventDispacher Bye!

I use Netbeans 12.6 on Windows 10. The java version is 11.0.12.