Some application servers pass null to init() and dispose() events. Old versions of Orion even passed null to init() when the server was shut down.
As for fixing it - it should be easy to see where the null pointer exception is ;)
Yup, and as I said in my original message, I know exactly where the NPE is occurring, and I could easily add a check for null there to skip the offending code.
Thanks for the tidbit about some app. servers doing funky things with these listeners - I'll check into it.
My concern was more systemic since I have not buried myself completely in WW2 code to see if some other piece of code could have been nulling something erroneously or something along those lines.
Erik
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