found it... I didn't call super.init(config) in the init() method
sorry
Stefanos
Stefanos Karasavvidis wrote:
> I've just installed tomcat 3.2.2 and have the following problem.
>
> I want to call getServletContext() from a servlets service method but
> get the folowing exception
> *Internal Servlet Error:*
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> javax.servlet.GenericServlet.getServletContext(GenericServlet.java:205)
> at TestServlet.service(TestServlet.java:32)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405)
> at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797)
>
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
> at
>
>org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
>
>
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
> at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501)
>
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
>
>
> Moreover the getServletConfig() returns null which is probably the
> main reason for this problem
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Stefanos
>
>
>
