Have you verified the Anchor Tag's 3 required parameters stack, request, 
response are initialised properrly and non null before constructing the anchor 
tag
?
Martin 
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> Subject: Using Anchor Component for creating custom anchor tag
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:15:29 +0000
> From: manoj.dh...@sword-soft.com
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
>  I am trying to create a custom anchor component using
> org.apache.struts2.components.Anchor. This is done inside a custom
> component that I am creating.
>  
> Method that initializes Anchor component is as follows :
>  
> 
>       private void createLink(String action, Containable item, Writer
> writer) {
> 
>        
> 
>  Component a = createAnchor(action, item);
> 
>        a.start(writer);
> 
>        a.end(writer, item.getName());
> 
>         }
> 
>  
> 
> private Anchor createAnchor(String action, Containable item){
> 
> Anchor a = new Anchor(stack, req, resp);
> 
> a.setHref(action);
> 
> return a;
> 
> }
>  
> However, if my code tries to create a link I get follwing error :
>  
> 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 
>       at
> org.apache.struts2.components.UIBean.mergeTemplate(UIBean.java:549)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.struts2.components.ClosingUIBean.start(ClosingUIBean.java:59)
> 
>       at
> com.poc.struts2.component.FolderBrowserComponent.createLink(FolderBrowse
> rComponent.java:70)
> 
>       at
> com.poc.struts2.component.FolderBrowserComponent.processItem(FolderBrows
> erComponent.java:116)
> 
>       at
> com.poc.struts2.component.FolderBrowserComponent.start(FolderBrowserComp
> onent.java:58)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.struts2.views.jsp.ComponentTagSupport.doStartTag(ComponentTag
> Support.java:53)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.jsp.Folderbrowser_jsp._jspx_meth_bol_005ffolderbrowser_005f0(
> Folderbrowser_jsp.java:145)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.jsp.Folderbrowser_jsp._jspService(Folderbrowser_jsp.java:90)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
> 
>       at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.ja
> va:374)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
> 
>       at
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
> 
>         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
>  
> 
> Could you please guide me what is the problem with template ? Do I need
> to create a custom template or need to set a default template ?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Manoj Dhore
> 
>  
> 
>  
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