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Posted to taglibs-user@tomcat.apache.org by Finn Ellebaek Nielsen <fe...@changegroup.dk> on 2000/05/22 23:57:17 UTC

How do I make the simpletag/foo.jsp example work?

Dear All.

I've installed Apache 1.3.12 and Tomcat 3.1 on Windows 4.0 SP5. All JSP
examples in http://myserver/examples/jsp/... work but when I try to run
foo.jsp I get:

Error: 500
Location: /examples/jsp/simpletag/foo.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
	at java.lang.Throwable.(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.loadJSP(Compiled Code)
	at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(Compi
led Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(Compiled
Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.service(Compiled Code)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(Compiled Code)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection
(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(Compiled Code)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Compiled Code)

Root cause:
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.text.MessageFormat.format(Compiled Code)
	at java.text.MessageFormat.format(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.Constants.getString(Compiled Code)
	at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.handleDirective(Compiled
Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DelegatingListener.handleDirective(Compiled
Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser$Directive.accept(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.loadJSP(Compiled Code)
	at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(Compi
led Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(Compiled
Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.service(Compiled Code)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(Compiled Code)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection
(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(Compiled Code)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Compiled Code)

What do I need to get the example to work?

Cheers,

Finn

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