java.lang.NullPointerException in

[Nils Frohberg]

hi,

i have a very strange problem with my orion server. whenever i try to use 
<jsp:forward /> or 
getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(string).forward(requ
est, response) i get a java.lang.NullPointerException:

500 Internal Server Error

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.evermind.server.http.du.rt(Compiled Code)
        at 
com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.getRequestDispatcher(Compiled Code)
        at 
com.evermind.server.http.EvermindPageContext.handlePageException(Compiled Code)
        at /ServiceFC.jsp._jspService(Compiled Code)
        at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindHttpJspPage.service(Compiled Code)
        at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.t5(Compiled Code)
        at com.evermind.server.http.JSPServlet.service(Compiled Code)
        at com.evermind.server.http.di.pw(Compiled Code)
        at com.evermind.server.http.di.forward(Compiled Code)
        at com.evermind.server.http.dr.p1(Compiled Code)
        at com.evermind.server.http.dr.p0(JAX)
        at com.evermind.util.f.run(Compiled Code)
        
this is on a solaris 8 x86 box running
java version "1.2.1"
Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04c, native threads, sunwjit)

on other boxes it works as expected.

any hints?

thanks,
--nils