Error: 500. How to escape this page

[faith ok <x_...@yahoo.com>]

Hi, appiciate your response.
 
I use apache 1.3.12, tomcat 3.1, JDK 1.3 in NT 4.0

In servlet code, if the page have err, how to escape
it?  I set the  "ErrorDocument 500 /err.html" 

in httpd.conf, but it is not work, the customer
browser still get the follow message.

Error: 500
Location: /jaguar/servlet/classifieds_broad
Internal Servlet Error: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at
classifieds_broad.service(classifieds_broad.java:76) 
at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)



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ClassCastException accessing loaded servlet from JSP

[Edward Demetrio Pacheco <ed...@melior.com>]

I'm hoping someone can help me with an odd problem:   I've set up a db
connection pool servlet that is loaded on startup.  In that servlet, I am
using the setAttribute() method of the ServletContext to allow the servlet
itself to be accessed as an application object.  From another servlet, I am
able to access this connection pool servlet with no problem.  However, if I
try to do the same from a JSP page, I get a ClassCastException error.  See the
code snippets below for more info...

Thanks.

======================
Code in connection pool servlet
======================

  // Context attribute key
  public static String KEY = "javaservlets.db.ConnectionServlet_21";
.
.
// Add this servlet to the context so that other servlets
// can find it
getServletContext().setAttribute(KEY, this);  // this is in the init() of the
servlet itself

===================================================
Code in a different servlet that uses the connection pool servlet (this works)

===================================================

      // Get the ConnectionServlet that holds the
      // connection pool
      ServletConfig config = getServletConfig();
      ServletContext context = config.getServletContext();
      Object o = context.getAttribute(ConnectionServlet_21.KEY);
      if (o == null) {
        throw new ServletException("ConnectionServlet not started");
      }
      ConnectionServlet_21 conServlet = (ConnectionServlet_21) o;

=================================
Code in JSP file that causes ClassCastException
=================================

      javaservlets.db.ConnectionServlet_21 conServlet = null;
      synchronized (application) {
       conServlet = (javaservlets.db.ConnectionServlet_21)

pageContext.getAttribute("javaservlets.db.ConnectionServlet_21",PageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE);

                // ^ I believe this is the line it has the problem with.  It
can get the application attribute, but can't cast it...
                    if ( conServlet == null ) {
          throw new ServletException("ConnectionServlet not started");
                    }
            }

Also, using the code that works from the servlet in the JSP likewise fails
with the ClassCastException.