Problem solved. The bad DataSource definition indeed killed my application. After reading some more docu, I decided to put the database parameters into the resources directory and do the actual connection in a "business logic" class.
Whoops, it works .. Thanks for your support! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Wolfgang Rinnert -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Rinnert, Wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. November 2004 10:19 An: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Betreff: AW: nullpointer in struts-tag Thanks for your thoughts. I just discovered the following: I did not check logs/catalina.out before. It told me there is a problem with my datasource definition. In fact I added the definition before coming back to the testing cycle, where I am stuck now. This seems to be totally unrelated at first glance, since data would be stored much later into the session. But apparently the initialisation is done at precisely that moment. So I will try and repair this first and then come back if the problem persists. ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]