This problem will be fixed in the next release.  It was indeed an issue
with AccessController.doPrivileged as Marc had hypothesized below.

Thanks, Marc!

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Ftaylor <finbarrtay...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> This problem still exists.
>
> On Dec 16 2009, 9:42 pm, polyurethan <vette...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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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