When I set devMode to true I get the exception below. Struts 2.1.6, Tomcat 5.5, starting Tomcat from within Eclipse. If devMode is false all works fine. Anyone have any ideas?
2009-06-26 10:21:06,250 INFO com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider:31 - Parsing configuration file [struts-default.xml] 2009-06-26 10:21:06,442 INFO com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider:31 - Unable to locate configuration files of the name struts-plugin.xml, skipping 2009-06-26 10:21:06,443 INFO com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider:31 - Parsing configuration file [struts-plugin.xml] 2009-06-26 10:21:06,531 INFO com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider:31 - Parsing configuration file [struts.xml] 2009-06-26 10:21:06,544 INFO com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration:31 - Overriding property struts.i18n.reload - old value: false new value: true 2009-06-26 10:21:06,544 INFO com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration:31 - Overriding property struts.configuration.xml.reload - old value: false new value: true 2009-06-26 10:21:06,549 INFO org.apache.struts2.config.BeanSelectionProvider:31 - Loading global messages from AdminResources 2009-06-26 10:21:06,918 ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/nxm]:3639 - Exception starting filter struts2 java.lang.NullPointerException at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.FileManager$FileRevision.needsReloading(FileManager.java:209) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.FileManager.fileNeedsReloading(FileManager.java:60) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.needsReload(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:325) at org.apache.struts2.config.StrutsXmlConfigurationProvider.needsReload(StrutsXmlConfigurationProvider.java:168) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.conditionalReload(ConfigurationManager.java:220) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:61) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.getContainer(Dispatcher.java:774) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.InitOperations.initStaticContentLoader(InitOperations.java:77) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter.init(StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter.java:49) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:221) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:302) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:78) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3635) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) Jun 26, 2009 10:21:11 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error filterStart Jun 26, 2009 10:21:11 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/nxm] startup failed due to previous errors