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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by andreas ebbert <eb...@imm.rwth-aachen.de> on 2000/12/08 10:43:35 UTC

Re: getServletContext() returns nullpointer-exception

On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 19:15:47 -0600, William Brogden wrote:

>
>
>andreas ebbert wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to get a servlets context
>> with getServletContext() but all I get
>> is a NullPointerException. Can anybody
>> help me?
>> 
>> greetings,
>> Andreas
>
>The usual reason for this is a failure to call super.init()
>in your servlet init method. Assuming your init is:
>
>  public void init( ServletConfig config ){
>     super.init( config ) ; // Essential!!
>    ....
>  }
>-- 
>WBB - wbrogden@lanw.com
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>Author of Java Developer's Guide to Servlets and JSP 
>ISBN 0-7821-2809-2
>
I´ve not implemented the servlet init()-methods.
any other ideas?
(I am using win98, apache 1.3.14, tomcat 3.2)

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