Dear all, After corrected the typo pointed out by Geeta, My Handler servlet can work now. But I have new prolems now: I made a myTest.jar file which included the "Test.class" and put it in the same path as Handler.class. Then I configured the JBuilder's "required libaries" and added the myTest.jar. Now My Handler.java is: import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import javax.xml.bind.*; import com.gxmlhub.msgsvc.server.*; public class Handler extends Test { public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,ServletException { super.service(request,response); } public void onMessage(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,ServletException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<h1>onMessage by Handler!!!!</h1>"); } } My Test.java is(Please note that I added the "package"sentence in it): package com.gxmlhub.msgsvc.server; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import java.text.*; import java.util.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class Test extends HttpServlet { public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,ServletException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<html>"); out.println("<body>"); out.println("<head>"); out.println("<title>Hello World!</title>"); out.println("</head>"); out.println("<body>"); out.println("<h1>Hello World!</h1>"); onMessage(request,response); out.println("</body>"); out.println("</html>"); } public void onMessage(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,ServletException { PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<h1>onMessage by Test</h1>"); } } When I want to run the Handler servlet, JBUilder gives me the following errors: Error: 500 Location: /servlet/Handler Internal Servlet Error:java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.ClassLoader.resolveClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.resolveClass(ClassLoader.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveClassLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveClassLoader.java:430) at org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveServletLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveServletLoader.java:174) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.loadServlet(ServletWrapper.java:265) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:289) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:254) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:812) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758) at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:213) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) Can anyone tell me how to deal with it? Thanks! Ying ----- Original Message ----- From: Ying Su To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:46 AM Subject: Can a servlet extends another servlet? Dear all, I wrote a servlet "Test.java" which contains a service(request,response) method, and it works properly. Then I want to write another servlet "Handler.java" which extends the "Test" class, and in Handler.java, I overrides the service(request,response) method. It was compiled succesfully,but can not run. I use JBuilder to run my servlets, and it gives the following error: Error: 500 Location: /servlet/Handler Internal Servlet Error:java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.ClassLoader.resolveClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.resolveClass(ClassLoader.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveClassLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveClassLoader.java:430) at org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveServletLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveServletLoader.java:174) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.loadServlet(ServletWrapper.java:265) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:289) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:254) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:812) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758) at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:213) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) Can anyone answer my question? Thanks a lot! My Test.java: import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import java.text.*; import java.util.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class Test extends HttpServlet { public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,ServletException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<html>"); out.println("<body>"); out.println("<head>"); out.println("<title>Hello World!</title>"); out.println("</head>"); out.println("<body>"); out.println("<h1>Hello World!</h1>"); onMessage(request,response); out.println("</body>"); out.println("</html>"); } public void onMessage(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,ServletException { PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<h1>onMessage?</h1>"); } } My Handler.java import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; public class Handler extends Test { public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)throws IOException,ServletException { super.service(request,response); } public void onMessage(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)throws IOException,ServletException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = null; out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<h1>EbXMLHandler!!!!</h1>"); } } best regards! 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