Thanks for the reply. At the risk of sounding obtuse, where exactly is the correct place to define this property? I tried to look for it in the Tomcat docs but couldn't find anywhere that talks about this. I tried setting it as a -D at tomcat startup, which doesn't seem like the correct place to set this, and it didn't work anyway. Do I put this in the web.xml of the web application as a context parameter?
Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Faustino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:38 AM To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: XInclude in faces-config file I'm attempting to modularize one of the xml files by using XInclude under Tomcat 5.5.9. The application starts, but at the point in time when the beans should get instantiated I get a NullPointerException in the ManagedBeanFactory. In the example below, I'm trying to include file2.xml in file1.xml, but it appears that the include directive is being ignored. Note that if I insert the contents of file2.xml directly into file1.xml, everything works as expected. Can anyone offer any insight in what I'm doing wrong? file1.xml ---------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd";> <faces-config xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; > <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>bean1</managed-bean-name> ... </managed-bean> ... <xi:include href="file2.xml"/> </faces-config> file2.xml ----------- <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>bean2</managed-bean-name> ... </managed-bean> stderr.log ------------ Sep 22, 2005 9:10:47 AM com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate createAndMaybeStoreManagedBeans SEVERE: Managedbean master could not be created Can't instantiate class: 'org.nowhere.myapp.beans.Master'.. class org.nowhere.myapp.beans.Master : java.lang.NullPointerException javax.faces.FacesException: Can't instantiate class: org.nowhere.myapp.beans.Master'.. class org.nowhere.myapp.beans.Master : java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.faces.config.ManagedBeanFactory.newInstance(ManagedBeanFactory.java: 209) at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.createAndMaybeStoreManagedBea ns(ApplicationAssociate.java:256) at com.sun.faces.el.VariableResolverImpl.resolveVariable(VariableResolverImpl.j ava:78) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.NamedValue.evaluate(NamedValue.java:125) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ComplexValue.evaluate(ComplexValue.java:146) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.evaluate(ExpressionEvaluatorIm pl.java:243) at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:173) at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:154) <snip>... Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: class org.nowhere.myapp.beans.Master : java.lang.NullPointerException at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:208) at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:48) at com.sun.faces.config.ManagedBeanFactory.newInstance(ManagedBeanFactory.java: 203) ... 60 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.slc.webetm.beans.Master.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAcces sorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstruc torAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303) at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:204) ... 62 more Stephen L. Faustino Senior Software Engineer SecureLogix Corporation 13750 San Pedro, Suite 230 San Antonio, TX 78232 Direct/Vmail (210) 402-9669 x949 http://www.securelogix.com SECURELOGIX CORPORATION EMAIL NOTICE - This transmission may be strictly confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you may not disclose, print, copy, or disseminate this information. If you have received this in error, please reply and notify the sender (only) and delete the message. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail is a violation of federal criminal law. This communication does not reflect an intention by the sender or the sender's principal to conduct a transaction or make any agreement by electronic means. Nothing contained in this message or in any attachment shall satisfy the requirements for a writing, and nothing contained herein shall constitute a contract or electronic signature under the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, any version of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, or any other statute governing electronic transactions.
