Hey there,

I still get this ClassCastException. When will the JVM be fixed?
It's Dec and the issue was raised in Jul. Is there any progress?

Thanks,
Alexander

On Oct 22, 10:13 am, Marc Guillemot <mguille...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Don,
>
> I've tried to produce a unit test to open an issue for Jasper... and failed.
>
> I'm now quite sure that this is a bug in the JVM used for GAE.
>
> The JavaDoc of AccessController.doPrivileged (which is a native method)
> says that it propagates unchecked exceptions and throws a
> PrivilegedActionException only if a *checked* exception was thrown.
> Therefore Jasper code is correct not to await a RuntimeException as a
> PrivilegedActionException can't contain a NullPointerException and GAE's
> JVM is buggy here.
>
> Cheers,
> Marc.
>
> Don Schwarz a écrit :> Ah, you're right actually.  I hadn't looked closely 
> enough at that bug.
>
> > We'll have to get the Jasper guys to fix that and then upgrade.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Don
>
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Marc Guillemot <mguille...@yahoo.fr
> > <mailto:mguille...@yahoo.fr>> wrote:
>
> >     This seems to be a really old issue that relates to something
> >     different... or do you mean that GAE uses a 5 years old version of
> >     Jasper?
>
> >     I've just look at the current sources of PageContextImpl
> >    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/jasper/r...
> >     and it seems to me that the problem still exists there.
>
> >     Cheers,
> >     Marc.
>
> >     Don Schwarz a écrit :
> >      > Yes, this is:
>
> >      >https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31171
>
> >      > We need to bundle a later version of Jasper with the App Engine
> >     SDK to
> >      > fix this.
>
> >      > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Marc Guillemot
> >     <mguille...@yahoo.fr <mailto:mguille...@yahoo.fr>
> >      > <mailto:mguille...@yahoo.fr <mailto:mguille...@yahoo.fr>>> wrote:
>
> >      >     Hi,
>
> >      >     any progress on this issue?
>
> >      >     Is it possible that it comes from a bug in Jasper, not able
> >     to recognize
> >      >     RuntimeException occurring in a PrivilegedExceptionAction?
>
> >      >     // org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl
>
> >      >     public void handlePageException(final Throwable t) throws
> >     IOException,
> >      >         ServletException {
> >      >       if (t == null)
> >      >         throw new NullPointerException("null Throwable");
>
> >      >       if (SecurityUtil.isPackageProtectionEnabled()) {
> >      >         try {
> >      >           AccessController.doPrivileged(
> >      >               new PrivilegedExceptionAction<Void>() {
> >      >             public Void run() throws Exception {
> >      >               doHandlePageException(t);
> >      >               return null;
> >      >             }
> >      >           });
> >      >         } catch (PrivilegedActionException e) {
> >      >           Exception ex = e.getException();
> >      >           if (ex instanceof IOException) {
> >      >             throw (IOException) ex;
> >      >           } else {
> >      >             throw (ServletException) ex; <------ here?
> >      >           }
> >      >         }
> >      >       } else {
> >      >         doHandlePageException(t);
> >      >       }
>
> >      >     }
>
> >      >     Cheers,
> >      >     Marc.
>
> >      >     Toby Reyelts a écrit :
> >      >      > There's an outstanding issue in the version of Jasper App
> >     Engine is
> >      >      > currently using that can cause exceptions escaping a JSP to be
> >      >      > incorrectly cast to ServletException. As a temporary
> >     workaround,
> >      >     you can
> >      >      > wrap the body of your JSP in a try-catch block to get the
> >     actual
> >      >     exception.
>
> >      >      > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Blessed Geek
> >      >     <blessedg...@gmail.com <mailto:blessedg...@gmail.com>
> >     <mailto:blessedg...@gmail.com <mailto:blessedg...@gmail.com>>
> >      >      > <mailto:blessedg...@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:blessedg...@gmail.com> <mailto:blessedg...@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:blessedg...@gmail.com>>>> wrote:
>
> >    http://cuckooberra.blessed-are-the-geek.com/TableMgr/TableMgr.jsp
>
> >      >      >     Any idea what this error log means? LoggedIn.jsp is a
> >     rather
> >      >     simple
> >      >      >     jsp, getting a temp authtoken and exchanging it for a
> >      >     permanent one.
> >      >      >     My app runs fine on local eclipse plugin, but on
> >     deployment
> >      >     this error
> >      >      >     resulted.
>
> >      >      >     07-30 07:30AM 49.848
> >      >      >     /TableMgr/LoggedIn.jsp
> >      >      >     java.lang.ClassCastException:
> >     java.lang.NullPointerException
> >      >     cannot be
> >      >      >     cast to javax.servlet.ServletException
> >      >      >            at
> >      >     org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException
> >      >      >     (PageContextImpl.java:754)

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