RE: Cocoon Null pointer problem

[Ducret, Gilles (CH)]

Hello,   We solved it that way:   In fact cocoon.properties is already present in the Cocoon.jar file. So it took it by default but a property was missing and returned null.   You must remove it from the jar and rebuild the jar.   Then we had the problem that it still did not find the property file, like you do.   We found that it came from Websphere itself. It did not work if we used an absolute path. The path, with Websphere had to be relative to the servlet directory.   Absolute path did not work.   Relative path worked.   For example if our servlet directory was: c:\myServletDirectory.   Let say we had created: c:\myServletDirectory\CocoonConf\Cocoon.properties.   The path had to be; CocoonConf\Cocoon.properties   We have read the code of Cocoon.init   It doesn't fail even if some properties are missing. As a result you have a trace in the log letting you thing that the servlet was correctly initialized, and it was not because it did not find the properties. And you get a null pointer exception.   Hope this help   Gilles -----Original Message----- From: Raman Jankiram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: samedi, 17. novembre 2001 00:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cocoon Null pointer problem I saw you posting in the Cocoon mailing list about the message you got. I am getting the same message i.e Cocoon 1.8.2                Unable to open resource: /usr/netscape/jr3/servers/default/ebilling-app/WEB-INF/conf/cocoon.properties               java.lang.NullPointerException                     at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.init(Cocoon.java, Compiled Code)                     at allaire.jrun.servlet.JRunServletLoader.loadServletInstance(JRunServletLoader.java, Compiled Code)                     at allaire.jrun.servlet.JRunServletLoader.loadServletInstance(JRunServletLoader.java, Compiled Code)                     at allaire.jrun.servlet.JRunServletLoader.loadServlet(JRunServletLoader.java, Compiled Code)                   Please let me know what you did to fix it. The messages exchanged in the mailing list is not clear.   Thanks -Raman ********************************************************************** This E-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) only. You should not disclose its contents to any other person. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately. **********************************************************************