NullPointerException when deployed as packed WAR
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Key: AXIS2-701
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-701
Project: Apache Axis 2.0 (Axis2)
Type: Bug
Components: core
Versions: 1.0
Environment: Windows XP Pro, Tomcat 5.5.12 & BEA Weblogic 8.1.3
Reporter: Jeff Peterson
Priority: Blocker
If Axis 2 is deployed as a WAR on Tomcat 5.5.12 or BEA Weblogic 8.1.3 (probably
others), a NullPointerException occurs when a user attemps to access the
Administration page (http://localhost:8080/axis2/axis2-admin/). In addition,
the default Version web-service does not appear to be functional (not reported
in happyaxis).
The exception is as follows:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AdminAgent.<init>(AdminAgent.java:76)
at
org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisAdminServlet.init(AxisAdminServlet.java:58)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInitAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1018)
at
weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at
weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:118)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:894)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createInstances(ServletStubImpl.java:873)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:812)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:535)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:373)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:315)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6452)
at
weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at
weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:118)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3661)
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2630)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
After tracking the exception down in the source, the root cause is at
/modules/core/src/org/apache/axis2/deployment/WarBasedAxisConfigurator.java:57
and reads:
repository = config.getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF");
As it turns out, when a WAR is deployed but not unpacked by the container,
repository will always be set to null. You can reproduce the error if you set
unpackWARs="false" in your tomcat server.xml file.
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