DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3815>. ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3815 JspServlets produces NullPointerException Summary: JspServlets produces NullPointerException Product: Tomcat 4 Version: 4.0 Final Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows NT/2K Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: Other Component: Jasper AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am seeing exceptions like this in my log files: java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.load (JspServlet.java:138) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary (JspServlet.java:178) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service (JspServlet.java:188) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile (JspServlet.java:381) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:473) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:1264) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke (ApplicationDispatcher.java:672) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward (ApplicationDispatcher.java:430) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward (ApplicationDispatcher.java:354) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.forward (PageContextImpl.java:409) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException (PageContextImpl.java:446) at org.apache.jsp.EquipData$jsp._jspService(EquipData$jsp.java:838) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:107) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:1264) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service (JspServlet.java:201) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile (JspServlet.java:381) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:473) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:1264) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter (ApplicationFilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter (ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke (StandardWrapperValve.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext (StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke (StandardContextValve.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext (StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke (StandardContext.java:2366) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke (StandardHostValve.java:164) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext (StandardPipeline.java:566) at com.visionnaire.PSS.servlet.PSSValve.invoke(PSSValve.java:74) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext (StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke (AccessLogValve.java:462) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext (StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke (StandardEngineValve.java:163) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext (StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process (HttpProcessor.java:1005) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run (HttpProcessor.java:1098) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) Looking at the code (JspServlet.java:138), it seems servletClass is null, and this is possible because (JspServlet.java:177) the load() method is always invoked theServlet is null: "if (loadJSP(jspUri, cp, isErrorPage, req, res) || theServlet == null) { load(); }". I wonder if this condition is incorrect, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
