Hi as described before i am using Eclipse WTP 1.x for development of a web application and use it's 'Export' function for creating the .war file. Installing that application on Tomcat 5.5.17 works fine.
Stopping and re-starting the application fails every time with a NullPointerException. So here is the log file snipplet i've forgotten to attach to my last post: INFO: HTMLManager: start: Starting web application at '/StageScanApplication' 09.06.2006 10:02:55 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SCHWERWIEGEND: FEHLER - Anwendung mit Kontext Pfad /StageScanApplication konnte nicht gestartet werden java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.log4j.spi.LocationInfo.<init>(LocationInfo.java:104) at org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent.getLocationInformation(LoggingEvent.java:191) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.PatternParser$LocationPatternConverter.convert(PatternParser.java:483) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.PatternConverter.format(PatternConverter.java:64) at org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout.format(PatternLayout.java:503) at org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender.subAppend(WriterAppender.java:301) at org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.subAppend(RollingFileAppender.java:234) at org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender.append(WriterAppender.java:159) at org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton.doAppend(AppenderSkeleton.java:230) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.AppenderAttachableImpl.appendLoopOnAppenders(AppenderAttachableImpl.java:65) at org.apache.log4j.Category.callAppenders(Category.java:203) at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:388) at org.apache.log4j.Category.log(Category.java:853) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.debug(Log4JLogger.java:110) at org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase.init(ManagerBase.java:724) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.start(StandardManager.java:618) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4137) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1175) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:527) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:104) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:524) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) 09.06.2006 10:02:55 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: HTMLManager: list: Listing contexts for virtual host 'localhost' pls hlp, thx ingo