Hi, I jus tried this. I created another folder under webapps and the tree structure is as below. Download1-- --WEB-INF/web.xml --WEB-INF/classes/com/deepa/servlet/DownloadFiles.class --WEB-INF/lib Download1 is under webapps folder. But after trying this too i am getting the same error. The web.xml is shown below. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!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> <display-name>Tomcat Documentation</display-name> <description> Tomcat Documentation. </description> <servlet> <servlet-name>DownloadFiles</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.deepa.servlet.DownloadFiles</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>DownloadFiles</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/servlet/DownloadFiles</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> Here is a error logs file: 2006-02-01 10:15:18 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Servlet DownloadFiles is currently unavailable 2006-02-01 10:15:28 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Servlet DownloadFiles is currently unavailable 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@c6f734') 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@8f9a32') 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@1d47b2b') 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: contextDestroyed() 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: contextDestroyed() 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@1aa2c23') 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@137d4a4') 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@6963d0') 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: contextDestroyed() 2006-02-01 10:28:45 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: contextDestroyed() 2006-02-01 10:28:54 StandardContext[/balancer]org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter: init(): ruleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.RuleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.URLStringMatchRule: Target string: News / Redirect URL: http://www.cnn.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.RequestParameterRule: Target param name: paramName / Target param value: paramValue / Redirect URL: http://www.yahoo.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.AcceptEverythingRule: Redirect URL: http://jakarta.apache.org]] 2006-02-01 10:28:54 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized() 2006-02-01 10:28:54 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized() 2006-02-01 10:29:25 StandardContext[/Download1]Marking servlet DownloadFiles as unavailable 2006-02-01 10:29:25 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Allocate exception for servlet DownloadFiles javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class com.deepa.servlet.DownloadFiles at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:996) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:687) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:144) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) ----- Root Cause ----- java.lang.NullPointerException at com.deepa.servlet.DownloadFiles.<init>(DownloadFiles.java:32) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:987) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:687) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:144) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929) at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) 2006-02-01 10:29:29 StandardWrapperValve[DownloadFiles]: Servlet DownloadFiles is currently unavailable Pls let me wat might be the problem. deepa
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