Looks to me like something in doStartTag is looking for something from request or session and its not finding it since its a startup and so it throws an exception.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:12 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: strange problem while implementing validation Hello I'm running Eclipse with Tomcat 5.0.18 and Struts 1.1. Since I use validation my application sometimes dies at startup. When I restart the server it throws the following exeption: ---------------------- java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.struts.taglib.html.JavascriptValidatorTag.doStartTag(JavascriptVa lidatorTag.java:316) at org.apache.jsp.index$jsp._jspService(index$jsp.java:741) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:107) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) -Jignesh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]