I'm having a persistent problem deploying my project to my tomcat 6 server in which the struts filter generates a null pointer exception. What confuses me is that I do not have this problem running the system under Eclipse, but only when I deploy it to my standalone Tomcat instance. Under Eclipse, everything loads and my application runs fine. On the standalone instance, the exception occurs, and the application does not get started.
I'm guessing that some configuration that is set up on Eclipse (Galileo) is not set up on the standalone tomcat instance. But I don't know what that might be. Here is the stack: SEVERE: 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.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:275) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:397) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3800) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4450) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:722) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:583) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
