hi everybody, I use Tomcat 5.5 under windows, and i have a little webapp with a servlet: ... JspFactory factory = JspFactory.getDefaultFactory(); resp.setContentType("text/xml"); //int bufferSize = (JspWriter.DEFAULT_BUFFER <= 0) ? 1024 : JspWriter.DEFAULT_BUFFER; PageContext pageContext = factory.getPageContext(this, req, resp, null, true, 8192, true); ... pageContext is null due to the next error (view log). What's the problem? thank you! ... INFO: Server startup in 4340 ms 23-dic-2005 9:35:34 org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl internalGetPageContext GRAVE: Exception initializing page context java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl._initialize(PageContextImpl.ja va:138) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.initialize(PageContextImpl.jav a:123) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.internalGetPageContext(JspFacto ryImpl.java:104) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.getPageContext(JspFactoryImpl.j ava:61) at net.sf.regain.ui.server.SearchServlet.getPageRequest(SearchServlet.java: 126) at net.sf.regain.ui.server.SearchServlet.doPost(SearchServlet.java:80) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica tionFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt erChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv e.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValv e.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java :126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java :105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve. java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:1 48) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:85 6) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processC onnection(Http11Protocol.java:744) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint .java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollow erWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool .java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)