Hi Can you post your job.properties as well, There will be several reasons for Null Pointer exception it is not a actual exception , could you please check in /var/log/oozie for actual exception. and this is my workflow..please try this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.5" name="anji_test">
<start to="hive"/>
<action name="hive">
<hive xmlns="uri:oozie:hive-action:0.2">
<job-tracker>${jobTracker}</job-tracker>
<name-node>${nameNode}</name-node>
<script>${nameNode}/sample/hive.hql</script>
</hive>
<ok to="end"/>
<error to="kill"/>
</action>
<kill name="kill">
<message>Action failed, error message[${wf:errorMessage(wf:lastErrorNode())}]</message>
</kill>
<end name="end"/>
</workflow-app>
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