I'm using a cut of code from a couple of weeks ago. I'm wondering if there are some places where a redirect to the portal page would be better than doing a forward.
For instance, if I: - Customize my portal - Save/apply - Follow a link on my portal that changes the current browser page (rather than targetting another window) - Hit the back button I get an error about the page being no longer cached from IE. If I elect to refresh the page and allow it to resubmit my parameters (from the save), I will blow up with the attached "Horrible exception" (see below) This is one of the reasons that many times we do a "sendRedirect" in our web applications rather than a forward. It avoids these problems. It does require more request/reply pairs, but I believe it is better in some cases. Any thoughts? Craig Craig Setera Sun Certified Java Programmer/Developer/Web Component Developer Senior Software Architect, Kingland Systems Corporation Horrible Exception: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jetspeed.modules.actions.controllers.MultiColumnControllerAction. doSave(MultiColumnControllerAction.java:350) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.apache.turbine.util.velocity.VelocityActionEvent.executeEvents(VelocityA ctionEvent.java:166) at org.apache.jetspeed.modules.actions.controllers.VelocityControllerAction.per form(VelocityControllerAction.java:110) at org.apache.turbine.modules.ActionLoader.exec(ActionLoader.java:122) at org.apache.turbine.modules.pages.DefaultPage.doBuild(DefaultPage.java:143) at org.apache.turbine.modules.Page.build(Page.java:90) at org.apache.turbine.modules.PageLoader.exec(PageLoader.java:123) at org.apache.turbine.Turbine.doGet(Turbine.java:565) at org.apache.turbine.Turbine.doPost(Turbine.java:655) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application FilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh ain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja va:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja va:201) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2344) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve. java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:462) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java :163) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java: 1011) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1106 ) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>