showcase-portlet:

AutoComplete Custom Facet
In IE11 and Firefox34, NPE and other errors are seen in server terminal window when typing a character in the autocomplete entry; also, in IE11 when the autoCompleteEntry component opens up, there are missing files, see screen shot.
The server errors cannot be found in server logs.

> In FF34, there is a browser console error:
> "NetworkError: 404 Not Found - http://localhost:8080/web/guest/resources/css/images/house.png”

Server errors:
20:02:04,188 ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-29][LiferayMethodExceptionEventHandler:34] java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.io.Writer.write(Writer.java:157)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.StringBundler.writeTo(StringBundler.java:310)
    at org.apache.jsp.html.common.themes.top_005fhead_jsp._jspService(top_005fhead_jsp.java:2052)
    at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
    at com.liferay.portal.servlet.DirectRequestDispatcher.include(DirectRequestDispatcher.java:57)
    at com.liferay.portal.servlet.ClassLoaderRequestDispatcherWrapper.doDispatch(ClassLoaderRequestDispatcherWrapper.java:78)
    at com.liferay.portal.servlet.ClassLoaderRequestDispatcherWrapper.include(ClassLoaderRequestDispatcherWrapper.java:53)
    at com.liferay.taglib.util.VelocityTaglibImpl.include(VelocityTaglibImpl.java:643)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor319.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.doInvoke(UberspectImpl.java:389)
………………


16:55:51,016 ERROR [BaseURLEncodedStringImpl:57] URL path must start with a '/' or include '://'
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URL path must start with a '/' or include '://'
        at com.liferay.portlet.PortletResponseImpl.encodeURL(PortletResponseImpl.java:314)
        at com.liferay.faces.bridge.context.url.BaseURLEncodedStringImpl.toString(BaseURLEncodedStri
ngImpl.java:54)
        at com.liferay.faces.bridge.context.url.BridgeURLBaseImpl.toString(BridgeURLBaseImpl.java:13
9)
        at com.liferay.faces.bridge.context.ExternalContextImpl.encodeResourceURL(ExternalContextImp
l.java:138)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.RenderKitUtils.getImageSource(RenderKitUtils.java:1407)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.ImageRenderer.encodeEnd(ImageRenderer.java:96)
        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:919)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.encodeRecursive(HtmlBasicRenderer.ja
va:312)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.GridRenderer.renderRow(GridRenderer.java:185)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.GridRenderer.encodeChildren(GridRenderer.java:129)
        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:889)
        at org.icefaces.ace.component.autocompleteentry.AutoCompleteEntryRenderer.encodeParentAndChi
ldren(AutoCompleteEntryRenderer.java:606)
        at org.icefaces.ace.component.autocompleteentry.AutoCompleteEntryRenderer.populateList(AutoC
ompleteEntryRenderer.java:407)
        at org.icefaces.ace.component.autocompleteentry.AutoCompleteEntryRenderer.encodeList(AutoCom
pleteEntryRenderer.java:357)
        at org.icefaces.ace.component.autocompleteentry.AutoCompleteEntryRenderer.encodeScript(AutoC
ompleteEntryRenderer.java:347)
        at org.icefaces.ace.component.autocompleteentry.AutoCompleteEntryRenderer.encodeBegin(AutoCo
mpleteEntryRenderer.java:233)
        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeBegin(UIComponentBase.java:864)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.encodeRecursive(HtmlBasicRenderer.ja
va:302)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.GridRenderer.renderRow(GridRenderer.java:185)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.GridRenderer.encodeChildren(GridRenderer.java:129)
        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:889)
        at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1856)
        at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:176)
        at org.icefaces.impl.renderkit.RendererWrapper.encodeChildren(RendererWrapper.java:49)
        at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:889)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicRenderer.encodeRecursive(HtmlBasicRenderer.ja
va:304)
        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.GroupRenderer.encodeChildren(GroupRenderer.java:114)