I have tested this problem on both tomcat-3.2.2 and tomcat-4.0-b3.
Here is a jsp that works just fine.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<%@ page language="java" session="true" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*,java.util.*" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<h1>Test</h1>
<%
Properties props = new Properties();
InputStream is = null;
try {
is = getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/easMail.properties");
} catch ( Exception ex ) {
out.print("ResourceAsStream problem:" + ex.getMessage());
}
try {
props.load(is);
} catch ( java.io.IOException e ) {
out.print("Can't load the properties file");
}
for (Enumeration e = props.propertyNames(); e.hasMoreElements();) {
String pn = (String)e.nextElement();
out.print(pn + ": " + props.getProperty(pn) + "<br>");
}
%>
<hr>
<address><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Earl Stutes</a></address>
<!-- Created: Mon Apr 16 15:34:31 PDT 2001 -->
<!-- hhmts start -->
Last modified: Mon Apr 23 18:29:11 PDT 2001
<!-- hhmts end -->
</body>
</html>
Here is its output
Test
mail.imap.socketFactory.class: javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory
mail.transport.protocol: smtp
mail.imap.socketFactory.port: 993
mail.imap.socketFactory.fallback: false
mail.store.protocol: imap
Here is a snippet of code from my servlet.
line #
124 private void doTask() throws ServletException,IOException,
125 EasMailException {
126 ssn = request.getSession(true);
127 String task = request.getParameter("task");
128 InputStream is = null;
129 try {
130 is =
getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/easMail.Properties");
131 }
catch (Exception ex) {
request.setAttribute("javax.servlet.jsp.jspException", ex);
svcxt.getRequestDispatcher("/Error.jsp").forward(request, response);
}
try {
props.load(is);
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw new ServletException( "can't find properties file: " +
ex.getMessage());
}
Here is the results from running the servlet.
Error Encountered.
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.getServletContext(GenericServlet.java:205)
at easMail.easMailServlet.doTask(easMailServlet.java:130)
at easMail.easMailServlet.doPost(easMailServlet.java:96)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
What is wrong with this picture? Originally I had the code inside my
init() method, but moved it down in the main body of the class to see
if I was doing something wrong in the init() code.
Thanks
=eas=
