Hi! I just encountered a problem when using the commons-logging package together with Tomcat 4.0.3. When putting commons-loggin.jar (1.0.2) into the $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib, in order to be available for the server classes as well as for all web apps, a NullPointerException is thrown when trying to retrieve a Log instance. This Exception can be tracked down to some call to LogFactory.class.getClassLoader(), which returns null.
Ok, I read the javadocs of java.lang.Class.getClassLoader(), which says that this method may return null, if the class is loaded by the bootstrap class loader, but the LogFactory class is loaded by the common class loader of Tomcat, so I don't quite understand, why null is returned. Is this the expected behaviour? If yes I would really like to know how Tomcat accompishes this. What's even more funny is that a class loaded from $TOMCAT_HOME/common/classes does return the proper class loader instance. Best regards, Volker. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
