Hi Neil,
Why not taking down tomcat one more time and removing / cleaning up all its directories. Just get away with it all to avoid any File System and File Owner Problems. Then login as root user and re-install Tomcat After Tomcat starts up can you see the Tomcat Hello Page using your web browser? http://localhost:8080 Can you run all the servlet examples using Tomcat? Can you run all the JSP Example Pages using Tomcat? What IDE are you using? Is it possible to make a simple HelloWorld web application, creating HelloWorld.war on the fly using your favorite IDE and then deploy HelloWorld.war to the tomcat/webapps directory. Then check that Tomcat has a) recognized this new web application b) made under ./webapps a directory with the name HelloWorld in which you will find your web application Maybe you need to check tomcat configurations that tomcat can deploy on the fly by detecting a .WAR in its ./webapps dir. If simple things like that don't work, axis2 will never work! My issue is, I do not have too much know-how about any UNIX like system and in particular - CentOS - is this a virtual OS? How do I have to interpret " Virtual private server with CentOS 5.5 preinstalled" Because if virtual servers come into the game it gets even more complex. Josef -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Neil Aggarwal [mailto:n...@jammconsulting.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. August 2011 17:26 An: java-user@axis.apache.org Betreff: [Axis2] NPE during load in DeploymentFileData.getName Hello: I am setting up an Axis2 web service on Tomcat. When I run Tomcat, I get this error: SEVERE: Servlet /myservlet threw load() exception java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.axis2.deployment.repository.util.DeploymentFileData.getName(Deplo ymentFileData.java:69) Any ideas what happened? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 5.5 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage charges --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@axis.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@axis.apache.org