JasperReports plug-in fails to deploy using Incremental2PackActivator

Reproduce error as follows:

• Follow instructions wiki page about the Niemcor JasperReports plug-in

• Download plug-in from the link to the OSGi

• Login to the Apache Felix OSGi console

• Load the plug-in

Plug-in does not load. iDempiere log file shows:

14:56:42.043===========> Incremental2PackActivator.packIn: Pack in failed. [38]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.adempiere.pipo.srv.PipoDictionaryService.merge(PipoDictionaryService.java:120)
at org.adempiere.plugin.utils.Incremental2PackActivator.packIn(Incremental2PackActivator.java:198)
at org.adempiere.plugin.utils.Incremental2PackActivator.packIn(Incremental2PackActivator.java:166)
at org.adempiere.plugin.utils.Incremental2PackActivator.installPackage(Incremental2PackActivator.java:120)
at org.adempiere.plugin.utils.Incremental2PackActivator.access$4(Incremental2PackActivator.java:89)
at org.adempiere.plugin.utils.Incremental2PackActivator$2.run(Incremental2PackActivator.java:259)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)