----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: embedded webservices
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 15:44, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> Yo!
>
> Hmmmm. Nobody else seems to be interested in this :-(
>
> Ok, I think I'm on the right track now: I'm registering my own
> axis.EngineConfigFactory, and deploy AxisServlet from Jetty.
>
> But I see that it seems to absolutely need an attachment direcory, and
>The exact problem is right now in DefaultAxisServerFactory:112:
>if(ret != null){
> attachmentsdirservlet= (String)
> ret.getOption(AxisEngine.PROP_ATTACHMENT_DIR);
> File attdirFile= new File(attachmentsdirservlet);
>
>where new File() throws a nullptr exception.
>
>(1) How can I avoid this? I'll try to set a globalOption in my
>EngineConfig object.
>(2) shouldn't this be caught, and a better error message be reported?
>NullPointerException is somewhat ugly...
looks like a bug to me. you could file it, though I doubt anyone but you
would rush to fix it.
If you add the handling to not create the attachmentdir File if there is no
attachment, what else breaks?