Null Pointer loading conf - Win 2K Prof, WebSphere 3.5 Adv, IBM Jdk 1.2.2

[Dinesh Visweswaraiah <di...@trailblazingsolutions.com>]

Hi Everybody,

First time installer's problem, please help.  To the best of my knowledge I
have followed all the instructions, made sure all the required jars are
available.

I am trying to get Cocoon 1.8.2 installed with
	WebSphere 3.5 Adv Edition with Patch 2 operating in Servlet 2.2 compliance
mode
	IBM JDK 1.2.2
	Win 2K Prof with 256 Mb RAM

I get the following exception for http://localhost/cocoon

Unable to open resource: C:/cocoon-1.8.2/conf/cocoon.properties
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:68)
	at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:88)
	at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:77)
	at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:179)
	at
org.apache.cocoon.framework.Configurations.<init>(Configurations.java:113)
	at
org.apache.cocoon.framework.Configurations.<init>(Configurations.java:101)
	at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.init(Cocoon.java:132)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictServletInstance.doInit(ServletManager.ja
va:558)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictLifecycleServlet._init(StrictLifecycleSe
rvlet.java:136)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.PreInitializedServletState.init(StrictLifecycl
eServlet.java:244)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictLifecycleServlet.init(StrictLifecycleSer
vlet.java:102)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.ServletInstance.init(ServletManager.java:277)
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.ServletManager.addServlet(ServletManager.java:
71)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppServletManager.loadServlet(WebAppServlet
Manager.java:88)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppServletManager.loadAutoLoadServlets(WebA
ppServletManager.java:155)
	at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebApp.loadServletManager(WebApp.java:776)
	at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebApp.init(WebApp.java:88)
	at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srt.WebGroup.loadWebApp(WebGroup.java:118)
	at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srt.WebGroup.init(WebGroup.java:82)
	at com.ibm.servlet.engine.ServletHost.addWebGroup(ServletHost.java:107)
	at
com.ibm.servlet.engine.ServletEngineDynamicUpdateSupport.addWebGroup(Servlet
EngineDynamicUpdateSupport.java:124)
	at
com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveServletGroup.startAction(ActiveServletGroup.java
:76)
	at com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.startObject(ActiveObject.java:668)
	at com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.start(ActiveObject.java:113)
	at
com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.operateOnContainedObjects(ActiveObject.ja
va:570)
	at
com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveServletEngine.startAction(ActiveServletEngine.ja
va:60)
	at com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.startObject(ActiveObject.java:668)
	at com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.start(ActiveObject.java:113)
	at
com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.operateOnContainedObjects(ActiveObject.ja
va:570)
	at
com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveEJBServer.startAction(ActiveEJBServer.java:96)
	at com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.startObject(ActiveObject.java:668)
	at com.ibm.ejs.sm.active.ActiveObject.start(ActiveObject.java:113)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at
com.ibm.ejs.sm.agent.AdminAgentImpl.activeObjectInvocation(AdminAgentImpl.ja
va:93)
	at
com.ibm.ejs.sm.agent.AdminAgentImpl.invokeActiveObject(AdminAgentImpl.java:6
2)
	at com.ibm.ejs.sm.agent._AdminAgentImpl_Tie._invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.ExtendedServerDelegate.dispatch(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.ORB.process(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.WorkerThread.run(Unknown Source)
	at com.ibm.ejs.oa.pool.ThreadPool$PooledThread.run(ThreadPool.java:532)


Thanks in advance,
Dinesh