Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-user-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 22357 invoked by uid 500); 10 Jul 2001 14:46:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 22231 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2001 14:46:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iris.multimedia-sa.gr) (root@194.219.144.188) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 10 Jul 2001 14:46:43 -0000 Received: from multimedia-sa.gr (dedalos.cha.forthnet.gr [194.219.144.171]) by iris.multimedia-sa.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA21807 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:07:12 +0300 Message-ID: <3B4B152C.50309@multimedia-sa.gr> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:46:04 +0300 From: Stefanos Karasavvidis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: el, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: getServletContext() throws NullPoinetException Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N I've just installed tomcat 3.2.2 and have the following problem. I want to call getServletContext() from a servlets service method but get the folowing exception *Internal Servlet Error:* java.lang.NullPointerException at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.getServletContext(GenericServlet.java:205) at TestServlet.service(TestServlet.java:32) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743) at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) Moreover the getServletConfig() returns null which is probably the main reason for this problem Any ideas?? Stefanos