Hi, I'm pulling my hair out over this... Set up is Cobalt RaQ4 Sun Cobalt Developer Kit for Java (jdk 1.3.1 tomcat 3.2.1) I have two tests that fail: All samples in webapps/examples An html file call test.jsp in webapps/examples/jsp/ (file contains just html) The jsp seems to compile find, but fails like this: java.lang.NullPointerException at jsp._0002fjsp_0002ftest_0002ejsptest_jsp_1._jspService(_0002fjsp_0002ftest_0 002ejsptest_jsp_1.java:66) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja va:177) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:318) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:391) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79 7) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743) at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection (Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) The only config mods we have made following standard installation of the package is in workers.properties - set java_home tomcat_home and ps Turning on full debug info, the test.jsp gets compiled like this: 2001-09-01 09:03:56 - Compiling with: -encoding UTF8 -classpath /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/ant.jar: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/jasper.jar: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/jaxp.jar: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/parser.jar: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/servlet.jar: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/test: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/webserver.jar: /usr/java/jdk/lib/tools.jar: : .: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/lib/servlet.jar: /usr/interclient/interclient.jar: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes: null: /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/work/localhost_8080%2Fexamples Any help much appreciated Thanks Martin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Imerge Limited Tel :- +44 (0)1954 783600 Unit 6 Bar Hill Business Park Fax :- +44 (0)1954 783601 Saxon Way Web :- http://www.imerge.co.uk Bar Hill Cambridge CB3 8SL United Kingdom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~