title: Keep getting error that says Server App Engine Standard at localhost failed to start
body: <p>When trying to start a google app engine project in eclipse i keep getting an error saying Server App Engine Standard at localhost failed to start(error log below).</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone come across this issue before and what was the cause of the issue.</p>
  
  <pre><code>WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
  WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.google.appengine.tools.development.StreamHandlerFactory (file:/C:/Users/AppData/Local/google/ct4j-cloud-sdk/LATEST/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/java/lib/impl/appengine-local-runtime.jar) to method java.net.URL.getURLStreamHandler(java.lang.String)
  WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.google.appengine.tools.development.StreamHandlerFactory
  WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
  WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
  Jan 05, 2020 3:13:54 PM com.google.appengine.tools.development.SystemPropertiesManager setSystemProperties
  INFO: Overwriting system property key 'java.util.logging.config.file', value 'C:\Users\AppData\Local\google\ct4j-cloud-sdk\LATEST\google-cloud-sdk\platform\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\java\config\sdk\logging.properties' with value 'WEB-INF/logging.properties' from 'C:\Users\eclipse-workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp1\WEB-INF\appengine-web.xml'
  java.lang.NullPointerException
      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.putVal(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1011)
      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.put(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1006)
      at java.base/java.util.Properties.put(Properties.java:1316)
      at java.base/java.util.Collections$CheckedMap.put(Collections.java:3638)
      at com.google.appengine.tools.development.SharedMain.setTimeZone(SharedMain.java:183)
      at com.google.appengine.tools.development.SharedMain.postServerActions(SharedMain.java:152)
      at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain$StartAction.apply(DevAppServerMain.java:398)
      at com.google.appengine.tools.util.Parser$ParseResult.applyArgs(Parser.java:45)
      at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.run(DevAppServerMain.java:257)
      at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.main(DevAppServerMain.java:248)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>would be really appreciative of any advice anyone could give to help me solve this issue as time is definitely against me on this one.</p>
  
  <p>edit: appengine-web.xml added below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;appengine-web-app xmlns="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0"&gt;
      &lt;threadsafe&gt;true&lt;/threadsafe&gt;
      &lt;sessions-enabled&gt;false&lt;/sessions-enabled&gt;
      &lt;runtime&gt;java8&lt;/runtime&gt;
      &lt;system-properties&gt;
          &lt;property value="WEB-INF/logging.properties" 
              name="java.util.logging.config.file"/&gt;
      &lt;/system-properties&gt;
  &lt;/appengine-web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>