Help! Unable to open taglibrary

[Pete Byhre <Pe...@Freightliner.com>]

We're trying to get struts installed on an intranet server with no internet
connection.  We're running tomcat 3.2.3 and struts 1.0.  We're just trying
to get a simple little app running that uses the struts-bean tag to pull a
hello world message from the resource file.  I've changed the DOCTYPE
elements in struts-config.xml, web.xml and struts-bean.tld to be like this
<!DOCTYPE taglib SYSTEM "http://localhost/dtd/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">.
I believe everything is working except the taglib because when i remove the
<bean:message ... > tag and just do straight jsp, everything works.

We're getting a NullPointerException and I can't figure out why.  The exact
exception that we are getting is:

Error: 500
Location: /hello-world/hello.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:
org.apache.jasper.compiler.CompileException:
/javahome/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3/webapps/hello-world/hello.jsp(1,0)
Unable to open taglibrary /WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld : Parse Error in the tag
library descriptor: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.lang.Exception.(Compiled Code)
	at javax.servlet.ServletException.(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.JasperException.(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.CompileException.(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$Directive.accept(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.doLoadJSP(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader.loadJSP(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(Compiled Code)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(Compi
led Code)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(Compiled
Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(Compiled
Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(Compiled Code)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(Compiled
Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(Compiled Code)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp13ConnectionHandler.processConnection
(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(Compiled
Code)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Compiled Code)

If anyone can shed some light on what's wrong here, I'd really appreciate
it.
Thanks,
pb


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