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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "Roytman, Alex" <ro...@peacetech.com> on 2001/04/02 17:42:53 UTC

NullPointerException in Catalina StandardClassLoader when JAR wi th no manifest is added to one of the lib directories

NullPointerException in  Catalina StandardClassLoader when JAR with no
manifest is added  to one of the lib directories
Adding manifest to the jar fixes the problem
 
D:\java\apache\tomcat4\bin>catalina run
Using CLASSPATH:
d:\java\apache\tomcat4\bin\bootstrap.jar;c:\java\jdk\lib\tools.jar
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.Extension.getAvailable(Extension.java:300)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.
.addRepositoryInternal(StandardClassLoader.java:1133)
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.<init>(StandardClassLoader.ja
va:219)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createCatalinaLoader(Bootstrap.java:32
8)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:121)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
addRepositoryInternal: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.addRepositoryInternal(Standar
dClassLoader.java:1145)
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.<init>(StandardClassLoader.ja
va:219)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createCatalinaLoader(Bootstrap.java:32
8)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:121)
D:\java\apache\tomcat4\bin>

Re: NullPointerException in Catalina StandardClassLoader when JAR wi th no manifest is added to one of the lib directories

Posted by "Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>.

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Roytman, Alex wrote:

> NullPointerException in  Catalina StandardClassLoader when JAR with no
> manifest is added  to one of the lib directories
> Adding manifest to the jar fixes the problem
>  

Just checked in a fix for this.  It will be in tonight's nightly build,
and also in the upcoming beta 3 release.

Craig