Have you tried watching "log" with a debugger? Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:17 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: tomcat 5.5.16 does strange things with my log4j? this is interesting, can you supply a simple test case, cause somewhere the variable "log" must be set to null Filip Leon Rosenberg wrote: > ok, I changed the code a bit: > if (log==null) > System.out.println("LOG IS NULL!!!"); > if (/*log!=null && */log.isDebugEnabled())<-- line 231 > log.debug("Timer execution lasted: "+duration); > > console output: > LOG IS NULL!!! > Exception in thread "Thread-1" java.lang.NullPointerException > at xxx...generic.services.timer.TimerServiceImpl.run(TimerServiceImpl.java:231) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) > > regards > Leon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]