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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:55:52 -0400
From: Steve Weiss <sweiss@aamc.org>
Organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
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To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Retrieving Objects from the Session Results in a Null Pointer
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Two suggestions:

1. You do have- <%@ page session="true" %> in your JSPs, yes? If not you
won't be able to maintain session information from one page to another.
2. Use session.getAttribute() instead of session.getValue(), which is
deprecated.

-Steve

Hunter Hillegas wrote:
> 
> I have this code:
> 
> <%
> theSession = request.getSession(false);
> 
> shoppingCart cart = null;
> 
> try {
>     cart = (shoppingCart)theSession.getValue("shoppingCart"); //This is
> causing a null pointer exception. Arghhhh...
> }
> catch (Exception e) {
>     e.printStackTrace();
> }
> %>
> 
> that pulls an object out of the session...
> 
> I can verify that the object is in the session. I can grab it from the page
> I inserted it from with this code:
> 
> shoppingCart testCart = (shoppingCart)theSession.getValue("shoppingCart");
> 
> I just can't get it from any other pages...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Hunter Hillegas, MCP
> Web Engineer / System Administrator - Jacob Stern & Sons, Inc.
> hhillegas@jacobstern.com
> 805-565-1411 PH * 805-565-8684 FAX

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