FalconJPAService fails to start with NullPointerException

2016-07-18 07:22:19,961 ERROR - [main:] ~ Failed to initialize service org.apache.falcon.service.FalconJPAService (ServiceInitializer:49)
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.falcon.service.FalconJPAService.getPropsforStore(FalconJPAService.java:111)
        at org.apache.falcon.service.FalconJPAService.init(FalconJPAService.java:87)
        at org.apache.falcon.service.ServiceInitializer.initialize(ServiceInitializer.java:47)
        at org.apache.falcon.listener.ContextStartupListener.contextInitialized(ContextStartupListener.java:56)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:550)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:136)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1282)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:519)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:499)
        at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:224)
        at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
        at org.apache.falcon.util.EmbeddedServer.start(EmbeddedServer.java:58)
        at org.apache.falcon.FalconServer.main(FalconServer.java:118)
2016-07-18 07:22:19,974 ERROR - [main:] ~ Failed startup of context org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext@5710768a{/,/mnt/falcon/server/server/webapp/falcon} (log:87)
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.falcon.FalconException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.falcon.listener.ContextStartupListener.contextInitialized(ContextStartupListener.java:59)