I found 1 mistake in your web.xml file. The matching tag for <servlet-name> is written as </servlet-class>. Hope this helps. srini -----Original Message----- From: Arnaud D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Slightly Offtopic] Tea with Tomcat I sent a message to the list a couple of weeks ago asking for alternatives for out.println("<html></html>"); ugly code I since discovered many products called frameworks if I understand well, like Struts, webmacro, tea, ECS and many thing on sourceforge.net I've tried to install Tea (opensource.go.com) and I didn't succeed, I modified all the files, but I get an exception when I start tomcat : ---------------------- ERROR reading C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\teaservlet\WEB-INF\web.xml java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tomcat.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java:221) at org.apache.tomcat.context.WebXmlReader.processFile(WebXmlReader.java: 141) at org.apache.tomcat.context.WebXmlReader.contextInit(WebXmlReader.java: 55) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.initContext(ContextManager.java :227) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.init(ContextManager.java:201) at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:156) at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:163) ---------------------- This is my web.xml file located in c:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\teaservlet\WEB-INF\web.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name> teaservlet </servlet-class> ??? should be </servlet-name>? <servlet-class> com.go.teaservlet.TeaServlet </servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name> properties.file </param-name> <param-value> /jakarta-tomcat/webapps/teaservlet/WEB-INF/TeaServlet.properties </param-value> </init-param> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name> teaservlet </servlet-name> <url-pattern> /dynamic/* </url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> ----------------- I added the following line to server.xml <Context path="/tea" docBase="webapps/teaservlet" debug="0" reloadable="true"> </Context> And I of course, added the TeaServlet.jar to my CLASSPATH All of this is not working, please help ! ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
