Ahh. Here is your issue:

if (beanName == null) {
    try {
        Class bean = ctxt.getClassLoader().loadClass(klass);
        int modifiers = bean.getModifiers();
        if (!Modifier.isPublic(modifiers) ||
            Modifier.isInterface(modifiers) ||
            Modifier.isAbstract(modifiers)) {
            throw new Exception("Invalid bean class modifier");
        }
        // Check that there is a 0 arg constructor
        bean.getConstructor(new Class[] {});
        generateNew = true;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // Cannot instantiate the specified class
        if (ctxt.getOptions().getErrorOnUseBeanInvalidClassAttribute()) {
            err.jspError(n, "jsp.error.invalid.bean", klass);
        }
    }
}

At compile time - jasper is checking that the default constructor of a bean may be invoked. By invoking the constructor at compile time - the class is loaded by the JVM. This will in turn cause the JVM to call any static initializers. (In which you have)


-Tim


Marcus Beyer wrote:

Tim Funk schrieb:

There here, but your 1st post was a on a Friday afternoon. And the errors were not very clear. Stack traces and a better description is probably in order.


I see :-)

=== description ===

I am using the ant script I found on page
<http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jasper-howto.html>. The relevant software I use is Tomcat 5.0.26 (the one that comes with JBoss 3.2.5) and JSF 1.1_01 reference implementation (the latest release).


BTW: Is there a way to let Tomcat do the job of JSP compilation on deployment? I mean without the need of visiting each page manually?

=== stack trace ===

[jasper2] SCHWERWIEGEND: java.lang.NullPointerException
[jasper2] java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
[jasper2] at MyHelper.getManagedBean(ManagedBeanHelper.java:43)
[jasper2] at MyBean.loadValues(DomainListBean.java:93)
[jasper2] at MyBean.<init>(DomainListBean.java:47)
[jasper2] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
[jasper2] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)


[jasper2] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)

[jasper2] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274)
[jasper2] at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:308)
[jasper2] at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator$GenerateVisitor.visit(Generator.java:1212)


[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$UseBean.accept(Node.java:1116)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2163)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2213)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visit(Node.java:2219)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Root.accept(Node.java:456)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2163)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Generator.generate(Generator.java:3261)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:244)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:470)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.JspC.processFile(JspC.java:776)
[jasper2] at org.apache.jasper.JspC.execute(JspC.java:905)
[jasper2] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[jasper2] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)


[jasper2] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

[jasper2] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
[jasper2] at org.apache.tools.ant.TaskAdapter.execute(TaskAdapter.java:124)
[jasper2] at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:269)
[jasper2] at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
[jasper2] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:301)
[jasper2] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:328)
[jasper2] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1215)
[jasper2] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:379)


[jasper2] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.main(InternalAntRunner.java:135)

  [jasper2] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
  [jasper2] at MyHelper.getManagedBean(ManagedBeanHelper.java:36)
  [jasper2] ... 32 more

thanx!
Marcus


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