Hi, while fiddling around with the JDBCRealm I encountered a NullPointerException. This happend when I specified a wrong authentication database. However, instead of a reasonable error message I got that NullPointerException.
It turned out to be a small bug in the StringManager. Here's a patch: --- src/share/org/apache/tomcat/util/res/StringManager.java 2001/10/21 19:26:14 1.1.1.1 +++ src/share/org/apache/tomcat/util/res/StringManager.java 2001/11/01 22:05:53 @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ public String getString(String key, Object[] args) { String iString = null; String value = getString(key); + if (value == null) + value = "null"; // this check for the runtime exception is some pre 1.1.6 // VM's don't do an automatic toString() on the passed in Best regards Rainer Klute RAINER KLUTE IT-CONSULTING Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824 D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>