NullPointerException in init() during redeploy

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:39 -0700 

Hi,
I have finally finished moving my application from Velocity 1.4/Tools 1.4 to Velocity 1.6.4/Tools 2.0 (thanks for your help Nathan). Unfortunately, I am hitting a serious snag during the re-deploy. My Servlet is extending VelocityViewServlet, and the NullPointerException is being thrown in my init() method, when calling super.init(). The problem is occurring in org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance#setDefaultProperties(): 

    inputStream = getClass()
        .getResourceAsStream('/' + DEFAULT_RUNTIME_PROPERTIES);


The input stream it is returning is NULL. This only seems to happen when 
I re-deploy into my Servlet Container (I am using Jetty). If I then shut 
down the entire JVM and restart, the application runs fine. 
Unfortunately, restarting the JVM to deploy my app everywhere is not an 
option. If I catch and ignore the Exception, the rest of my application 
runs fine (but any access to the Velocity Engine generates errors).



Here is the stack trace I am receiving. Any help or guidance would be 
greatly appreciated.


 java.lang.NullPointerException
       at java.io.Reader.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(Unknown Source)

       at 
org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties.load(ExtendedProperties.java:543)
       at 
org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties.load(ExtendedProperties.java:519)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.setDefaultProperties(RuntimeInstance.java:397)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.initializeProperties(RuntimeInstance.java:570)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.init(RuntimeInstance.java:249)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.init(VelocityEngine.java:107)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView.init(VelocityView.java:347)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView.init(VelocityView.java:310)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView.<init>(VelocityView.java:213)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.ServletUtils.createView(ServletUtils.java:156)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.ServletUtils.getVelocityView(ServletUtils.java:142)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.ServletUtils.getVelocityView(ServletUtils.java:104)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityViewServlet.getVelocityView(VelocityViewServlet.java:155)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityViewServlet.init(VelocityViewServlet.java:122)

       at rss.starter.MyTestServlet.init(MyTestServlet.java:147)

       at 
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.initServlet(ServletHolder.java:440)
       at 
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java:263)
       at 
org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
       at 
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:685)

       at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140)

       at 
org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1250)
       at 
org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:517)
       at 
org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:467)
       at 
org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)
       at 
org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130)

       at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:224)

       at 
org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50)

       at rss.jettywrapper.JettyWrapper.startServer(JettyWrapper.java:142)
       at rss.jettywrapper.JettyWrapper.upgradeCheck(JettyWrapper.java:204)
       at rss.jettywrapper.JettyWrapper.access$100(JettyWrapper.java:24)
       at rss.jettywrapper.JettyWrapper$1.run(JettyWrapper.java:80)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not initialize VelocityEngine: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView.init(VelocityView.java:354)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView.init(VelocityView.java:310)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView.<init>(VelocityView.java:213)

<same stack as above>
 Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
       at java.io.Reader.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(Unknown Source)

       at 
org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties.load(ExtendedProperties.java:543)
       at 
org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties.load(ExtendedProperties.java:519)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.setDefaultProperties(RuntimeInstance.java:397)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.initializeProperties(RuntimeInstance.java:570)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.init(RuntimeInstance.java:249)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.init(VelocityEngine.java:107)
       at 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.VelocityView.init(VelocityView.java:347)

       ... 25 more

Thank you.
 - Scott


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