I have no idea if this is a real, reproducible bug, but I get a blank home page on my local deploy and this is in my error window:

java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at edu.illinois.ncsa.mmdb.web.client.ui.DatasetInfoWidget.<init>(DatasetInfoWidget.java:69)
at edu.illinois.ncsa.mmdb.web.client.ui.HomePage$1.onSuccess(HomePage.java:133)
at edu.illinois.ncsa.mmdb.web.client.ui.HomePage$1.onSuccess(HomePage.java:1)
at edu.illinois.ncsa.mmdb.web.client.dispatch.MyDispatchAsync$1.onSuccess(MyDispatchAsync.java:78)
at edu.illinois.ncsa.mmdb.web.client.dispatch.MyDispatchAsync$1.onSuccess(MyDispatchAsync.java:1)
at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.impl.RequestCallbackAdapter.onResponseReceived(RequestCallbackAdapter.java:216)
at com.google.gwt.http.client.Request.fireOnResponseReceived(Request.java:287)
at com.google.gwt.http.client.RequestBuilder$1.onReadyStateChange(RequestBuilder.java:393)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor73.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodAdaptor.invoke(MethodAdaptor.java:103)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodDispatch.invoke(MethodDispatch.java:71)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.invoke(OophmSessionHandler.java:157)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannel.reactToMessagesWhileWaitingForReturn(BrowserChannel.java:1713)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.invokeJavascript(BrowserChannelServer.java:165)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpaceOOPHM.doInvoke(ModuleSpaceOOPHM.java:120)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.invokeNative(ModuleSpace.java:507)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.invokeNativeObject(ModuleSpace.java:264)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.JavaScriptHost.invokeNativeObject(JavaScriptHost.java:91)
at com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.Impl.apply(Impl.java)
at com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.Impl.entry0(Impl.java:188)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor72.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodAdaptor.invoke(MethodAdaptor.java:103)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodDispatch.invoke(MethodDispatch.java:71)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.invoke(OophmSessionHandler.java:157)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannel.reactToMessages(BrowserChannel.java:1668)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.processConnection(BrowserChannelServer.java:401)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.run(BrowserChannelServer.java:222)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)