Forget classpath -- it's ignored in Tomcat 5.5 and as I remember, was being phased out in Tomcat 3 (wow -- have I been reading these mail lists for that long??).

If you put your classes and jars in the right places, they will be found. In your case, the classes are being found, but some underlying code in biz.shipflex.Configuration is throwing an NPE.

--David

Sam Halicke wrote:

Hi all, first time posting to the list.

I'm having several problems migrating JSPs and class/jar files to Tomcat
5.5.7 from Tomcat 3. I understand this is a big move, but I'm trying to
avoid any rewrite of the JSPs themselves. Documentation for tomcat 5.5.x is
rather sparse and terribly cryptic.

Each webapp is using its own local classes (which I have copied into the
local WEB-INF directory in /classes /lib etc.), as well as some common
classes/jars which have been copied into the /tomcat/common/ directory tree.
Should I be using the /tomcat/shared/ tree? This does not seem to matter as
jasper will consistently throw me errors from compiling the JSPs.

Here is the root cause of one such error:

HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error

ROOT CAUSE
java.lang.NullPointerException
        biz.shipflex.Configuration.getConfiguration(Configuration.java:51)

org.apache.jsp.ShipFlex.Website.MainPage_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.Ship
Flex.Website.MainPage_jsp:52)
        org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:99)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:3
25)
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:245)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

My basic setup is as follows:

Apache 2.x              /usr/local/apache
Tomcat 5.5.7    /usr/local/tomcat

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tomcat]# echo $CLASSPATH
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/Common/Classes/:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/Shipping
/Classes/:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/scripts/Classes/:/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_01/l
ib/

I have a feeling its something with my CLASSPATH, again, this is a touchy
migration.

I'll gladly copy any portions of web.xml and/or server.xml, etc to an
additional message if needed. Any help or suggestions on things/files to
look at would be most appreciated.

TIA
********************************************
Sam Halicke
Systems Administrator
IMSure Network, Inc.


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