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[jira] Commented: (AXIS2-701) NullPointerException when deployed as packed WAR

    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-701?page=comments#action_12378763 ] 

Jeff Peterson commented on AXIS2-701:
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Tomcat stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AdminAgent.<init>(AdminAgent.java:76)
        at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisAdminServlet.init(AxisAdminServlet.java:58)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1091)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:750)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:130)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        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:868)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:663)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

> NullPointerException when deployed as packed WAR
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: AXIS2-701
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-701
>      Project: Apache Axis 2.0 (Axis2)
>         Type: Bug

>   Components: core
>     Versions: 1.0
>  Environment: Windows XP Pro, Tomcat 5.5.12 & BEA Weblogic 8.1.3
>     Reporter: Jeff Peterson
>     Priority: Blocker

>
> If Axis 2 is deployed as a WAR on Tomcat 5.5.12 or BEA Weblogic 8.1.3 (probably others), a NullPointerException occurs when a user attemps to access the Administration page (http://localhost:8080/axis2/axis2-admin/).  In addition, the default Version web-service does not appear to be functional (not reported in happyaxis).
> The exception is as follows:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AdminAgent.<init>(AdminAgent.java:76)
> 	at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisAdminServlet.init(AxisAdminServlet.java:58)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInitAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1018)
> 	at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
> 	at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:118)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:894)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createInstances(ServletStubImpl.java:873)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:812)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:535)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:373)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:315)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6452)
> 	at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
> 	at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:118)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3661)
> 	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2630)
> 	at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:219)
> 	at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
> After tracking the exception down in the source, the root cause is at /modules/core/src/org/apache/axis2/deployment/WarBasedAxisConfigurator.java:57 and reads:
> repository = config.getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF");
> As it turns out, when a WAR is deployed but not unpacked by the container, repository will always be set to null.  You can reproduce the error if you set unpackWARs="false" in your tomcat server.xml file.

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