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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27916 context.xml in war appears to require a docBase Summary: context.xml in war appears to require a docBase Product: Tomcat 5 Version: 5.0.19 Platform: All OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: Other Component: Catalina AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The deployment documentation states that you can put a context.xml in the META- INF directory of your war file to specify Tomcat specific settings. However, whenever I put a context.xml in my war file that looks like this: <Context path="/atd" reloadable="true"> </Context> I get an NPE (see below) after dropping this file in the webapps directory and starting Tomcat. If I set the docBase this doesn't happen. However it doesn't make sense to set the docBase since who knows where the war file will actually be deployed at. Shouldn't the attributes in the context.xml file I provide with my web app just be defaults while the other attributes come from the xml file in the conf/Catalina/localhost directory? Of course there isn't a context file in there the first time I start the server up, but then again there isn't one in there when I drop in a war file without a context.xml file and one is created with a correct docBase. SEVERE: End event threw exception java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod (MethodUtils.java:252) at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256) at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1058) at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.endElement (CatalinaDigester.java:123) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement (Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher. dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument (Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install (StandardHostDeployer.java:519) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:906) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors (HostConfig.java:527) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps (HostConfig.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1008) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent (HostConfig.java:394) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent (LifecycleSupport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1134) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:832) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1126) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start (StandardEngine.java:521) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start (StandardService.java:519) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start (StandardServer.java:2345) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:594) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:180) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.getBasePath (StandardContext.java:4722) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.getServletContext (StandardContext.java:1464) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.postWorkDirectory (StandardContext.java:4972) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start (StandardContext.java:4128) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal (ContainerBase.java:866) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild (ContainerBase.java:850) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:638) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild (StandardHostDeployer.java:839) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
