Hi All, I am a newbee to struts and trying some hands on it. I was just trying to develop a simple login form but getting following exception on initial run only.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEVERE: Error creating form bean of class com.abc.struts.form.LoginForm java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.struts.config.FormBeanConfig.createActionForm(FormBeanConfig.java:212) at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.createActionForm(RequestUtils.java:292) at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.createActionForm(RequestUtils.java:191) at org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.initFormBean(FormTag.java:477) at org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.doStartTag(FormTag.java:457) at jsp_servlet.__login._jspService(__login.java:196) at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:33) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried searching thru all forums from last 2 days but could not found any solution to the issue. This seems to be a very common problem but I don't know why its not going away. I am really stuck up. Below are the listing of files required to analyize the cause of error. web.xml ------------ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>debug</param-name> <param-value>3</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>detail</param-name> <param-value>3</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <taglib> <taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-location> </taglib> </web-app> index.jsp --------- ...... <body> <html:link page="/home.do">Login</html:link> </body> ..... struts-config.xml ----------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.2//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd "> <struts-config> <data-sources /> <form-beans > <form-bean name="loginForm" type="com.siemens.struts.form.LoginForm" /> </form-beans> <global-exceptions /> <global-forwards /> <action-mappings > <action attribute="loginForm" name="loginForm" path="/empLogin" scope="request" type="com.siemens.struts.action.EmpLoginAction" validate="false" /> <action forward="/Login.jsp" path="/home" /> </action-mappings> <message-resources parameter="com.siemens.struts.ApplicationResources" /> </struts-config> Login.jsp --------- <body> <html:form action="/empLogin" method="post" focus="login"> <table border="0"> <tr> <td>Login:</td> <td><html:text property="login" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Password:</td> <td><html:password property="password" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><html:submit>Login</html:submit></td> </tr> </table> </html:form> </body> I can also provide the form bean and action class if required but I believe it won't add to solving the problem as the exception occurs when I click on the link on index.jsp and then it tries to render the Login.jsp. Please help. Nanu