I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but

resourceManager().pathURLForResourceNamed("Resources/log4j.xml", null, null)

in my Application.java class is returning null when I run my app. The log4j.xml is in the /Resources/ directory (in both the build and dist directories) and flagged as a Resource. Why isn't it being found? It seems to be an intermittent problem as it has done this before and then suddenly started working.

I get the following NPE in Eclipse Run Log:

[2008-01-23 07:47:16 EST] <main> A fatal exception occurred: null
[2008-01-23 07:47:16 EST] <main> java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.bestmaid.bakeryManagement.server.Application.<init> (Application.java:38) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance (NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance (DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
        at com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication.main(WOApplication.java:323)
at com.bestmaid.bakeryManagement.server.Application.main (Application.java:23)

I get the following from Tomcat when it tries to start the deployed application:

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at com.webobjects.jspservlet.WOServletAdaptor._applicationInit (WOServletAdaptor.java:415) at com.webobjects.jspservlet.WOServletAdaptor.initStatics (WOServletAdaptor.java:78) at com.webobjects.jspservlet.WOServletAdaptor.init (WOServletAdaptor.java:629)
        at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet (StandardWrapper.java:1161) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load (StandardWrapper.java:981) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup (StandardContext.java:4045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start (StandardContext.java:4351) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal (ContainerBase.java:791) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild (ContainerBase.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java: 525) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor (HostConfig.java:626) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors (HostConfig.java:553) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java: 488)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent (HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent (LifecycleSupport.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java: 1053)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java: 1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java: 443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start (StandardService.java:516) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java: 710)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:566)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: com.webobjects.foundation.NSForwardException [java.lang.NullPointerException] null: <com.bestmaid.bakeryManagement.server.Application> failed instantiation. Exception thrown :
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at com.webobjects.foundation._NSUtilities._explainInstantiationException (_NSUtilities.java:567) at com.webobjects.foundation._NSUtilities.instantiateObject (_NSUtilities.java:581) at com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication.primeApplication (WOApplication.java:411)
        ... 34 more

If I comment the following out of the Application.java file, it will launch:

URL configURL = resourceManager().pathURLForResourceNamed("Resources/ log4j.xml", null, null);
        NSLog.out.appendln("Initializing log4j from " + configURL.toString());
        DOMConfigurator.configure(configURL);

Thanks,

Dave
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