NullPointerException while starting up Tomcat 4.1.10 in debug mode

I get the same error

That makes three of us...

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Hashtable.get(Hashtable.java:329)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getCachedFactory(LogFactory.java:502)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getFactory(LogFactory.java:264)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:401)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.]]>(Digester.java:345)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.createStartDigester(Catalina.java:280)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:441)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)

I got the same exception, but got rid of it after I supplied the following environment variable to the tomcat:
-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl

I'm now using the latest build of the log4j commons jar and the variable is valid at least on that version. It won't work with the release version 1.0.1, though. So you probably need to update the tomcat/common/lib/commons-logging-api.jar.

My webapp starts now nicely, but I still cant debug at jsp source level. Execution just won't stop on jsp. :(

BTW, if your tomcat will decline to compile jsp pages, update tools.jar under tomcat/common/lib/ to the jdk1.4 version.

Cheers,
Tuomas

Hello Tuomas,

My webapp starts now nicely, but I still cant debug at jsp source level.

Execution just won't stop on jsp. :(

Unfortunately with this version of Tomcat it won't work. Use Tomcat 4.0.5
for debugging purposes. See my previous messages in this newsgroup (this
thread in particular) for details.


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"Tuomas Huhtanen" <idea@saynomoo.com> wrote in message
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I got the same exception, but got rid of it after I supplied the following

environment variable to the tomcat:

-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Lo

gFactoryImpl
>

I'm now using the latest build of the log4j commons jar and the variable

is valid at least on that version. It won't work with the release version
1.0.1, though. So you probably need to update the
tomcat/common/lib/commons-logging-api.jar.
>

My webapp starts now nicely, but I still cant debug at jsp source level.

Execution just won't stop on jsp. :(
>

BTW, if your tomcat will decline to compile jsp pages, update tools.jar

under tomcat/common/lib/ to the jdk1.4 version.
>

Cheers,
Tuomas