This is a very basic problem, and I have tried many combination but it is not working at all.
I have two table , let assume, there is 1-1 relationship for simplification of problem at hand Teacher(id, name) Student(id,name,teacher_id) The two beans are public class Teacher { private Integer id; private String name; private Integer student_Id; ...... } public class Student { private Integer id; private String name; private Integer teacher_id; ...... } SQL config MAp is <resultMap id="TeacherResultMap" class="Teacher"> <result property="id" column="id"/> <result property="name" column="name"/> <result property="student_id" column="id" select="findStudentByTeacherId"/> </resultMap> <select id="findStudentByTeacherId" resultClass="int"> select id from Student where id = #value# </select> <select id="findTeacherById" resultMap="TeacherResultMap"> select id , name from Teacher where id = #value# </select> My Test code calls queryForObject("findTeacherById", id); But I get the following exception Caused by: com.ibatis.common.jdbc.exception.NestedSQLException: --- The error occurred in maps/JOB_SqlMap.xml. --- The error occurred while applying a result map. --- Check the JOB.TeacherResultMap. --- Check the result mapping for the 'student_id' property. --- Cause: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.statement.MappedStatement.executeQueryWithCallback(MappedStatement.java:204) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.statement.MappedStatement.executeQueryForObject(MappedStatement.java:120) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapExecutorDelegate.queryForObject(SqlMapExecutorDelegate.java:518) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapExecutorDelegate.queryForObject(SqlMapExecutorDelegate.java:493) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapSessionImpl.queryForObject(SqlMapSessionImpl.java:106) at org.springframework.orm.ibatis.SqlMapClientTemplate$1.doInSqlMapClient(SqlMapClientTemplate.java:273) at org.springframework.orm.ibatis.SqlMapClientTemplate.execute(SqlMapClientTemplate.java:209) ... 27 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapExecutorDelegate.endTransaction(SqlMapExecutorDelegate.java:734) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapSessionImpl.endTransaction(SqlMapSessionImpl.java:176) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapClientImpl.endTransaction(SqlMapClientImpl.java:153) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapExecutorDelegate.autoEndTransaction(SqlMapExecutorDelegate.java:835) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapExecutorDelegate.queryForObject(SqlMapExecutorDelegate.java:525) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapExecutorDelegate.queryForObject(SqlMapExecutorDelegate.java:493) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapSessionImpl.queryForObject(SqlMapSessionImpl.java:106) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapClientImpl.queryForObject(SqlMapClientImpl.java:82) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.result.loader.ResultLoader.getResult(ResultLoader.java:75) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.result.loader.ResultLoader.loadResult(ResultLoader.java:57) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.result.ResultMap.getNestedSelectMappingValue(ResultMap.java:510) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.result.ResultMap.getResults(ResultMap.java:341) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.execution.SqlExecutor.handleResults(SqlExecutor.java:384) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.execution.SqlExecutor.handleMultipleResults(SqlExecutor.java:300) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.execution.SqlExecutor.executeQuery(SqlExecutor.java:189) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.statement.MappedStatement.sqlExecuteQuery(MappedStatement.java:221) at com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.mapping.statement.MappedStatement.executeQueryWithCallback(MappedStatement.java:189) ... 33 more