since your writing the repsonce there and then why not try 

return null;



On Wednesday 26 March 2003 2:57 pm, Jeremy Nix wrote:
> I am new to struts, and have just recently began porting our current web
> application over to the struts framework.  A piece of our application
> involves creating a pdf file and displaying it to the user.  Currently,
> in the old framework, we set the ContextType of the response, and write
> the byte content to the response's oputputstream, which will render the
> pdf document in the browser.  I know I have direct access to the
> response under Struts, but I wanted to see if there was a better
> (cleaner) implementation within the struts framework that I may utilize.
>
> Here's a snippet of what I'm doing:
> ---
> response.setContentLength(doc.getContent().length);
> response.setContentType(doc.getMimeType().toString());
> response.getOutputStream().write(doc.getContent());
> return new ActionForward();
> ---
>
> I've noticed that I get a NullPointer exception after the return
> statement on "some" requests.  I'm really unsure of why this is
> happening as well.
>
> Stack trace:
> java.lang.NullPointerException at
> org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestPr
> ocessor.java:437) at
> org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionForward(RequestPr
> ocessor.java:401) at
> org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:
> 279) at
> org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1420)
> at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:520)
> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
>
> _________________
> Jeremy Nix
> Senior Application Developer
> Southwest Financial Ltd.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (513) 621-6699 ext 1158


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