-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan,
Leffingwell, Jonathan R CTR FRCSE, JAX 7.2.2 wrote: | I have the following code that worked in Tomcat 5.0, but doesn't work in | Tomcat 5.5.26: | | String formName = mapping.getAttribute(); // mapping is a variable of | type ActionMapping. In this scenario, formName is null. [snip] | formName is null. In Tomcat 5.0.x, no exception was thrown and | processing continued (as if passing a null argument to getAttribute | simply returned NULL). In Tomcat 5.5.26, a ServletException is thrown | (with a NullPointerException). | | I know how to code a work-around (and have done so), but is this | considered a bug in Tomcat? The servlet specification does not prohibit a NullPointerException from being thrown, but it does seem like the method should probably return null rather than throwing an NPE. Could you post the stack trace of the exception? - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhRh2IACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAOOgCfUWeV+OsSiqYjmkb24ueCduk4 BkMAn1bwrj3MldbyadbsKIWmPWrE9yVL =IoqQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
