Using tomcat with Oracle pure java thin drivers

[John Coonrod <jc...@thp.org>]

I've installed tomcat release 3.0 and it works fine with all the jsp 
examples. But when I try to run jsp pages that use the oracle pure java thin 
ddbc drivers I've previously run under apache/jserv/gnujsp, it won't work.

At first the jsp page under tomcat had trouble loading the oracle driver, 
but once I unzipped them into an oracle folder inside .\classes, it got past 
that and then gave this error:

What gives? Any help getting over this first hurdle would be VERY welcome. 
Thanks!

Error: 500
Internal Servlet Error:

javax.servlet.ServletException
	at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImp
l.java:384)
	at 
jsp._0005cjsp_0005cnde_0002ejspnde_jsp_0._jspService(_0005cjsp_0005cnde_0002
ejspnde_jsp_0.java, Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:126)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
	at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja
va:161)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:247)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java, Compiled 
Code)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServiceInvocationHandler.method(ServletWrapper.java:6
26)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleInvocation(ServletWrapper.java, 
Compiled Code)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:378)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.handleRequest(Context.java:644)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:440)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:144)
	at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(TcpEndpoint.java:304)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)

Root cause: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at 
jsp._0005cjsp_0005cnde_0002ejspnde_jsp_0._jspService(_0005cjsp_0005cnde_0002
ejspnde_jsp_0.java, Compiled Code)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:126)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
	at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja
va:161)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:247)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java, Compiled 
Code)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServiceInvocationHandler.method(ServletWrapper.java:6
26)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleInvocation(ServletWrapper.java, 
Compiled Code)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:378)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.handleRequest(Context.java:644)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:440)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:144)
	at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(TcpEndpoint.java:304)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)


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Dr. John Coonrod, Vice President
The Hunger Project, 15 East 26th Street, NY, NY 10010 www.thp.org