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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 27969] New: - RequestDispatcher.include() results in NullPointerException

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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27969

RequestDispatcher.include() results in NullPointerException

           Summary: RequestDispatcher.include() results in
                    NullPointerException
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.0.19
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: rickkw@yahoo.com


Background:

* JBoss 3.2.4RC1 w/Tomcat 5.0.19.
* Two webapps: /com.loudcloud.owm.usrmgr, /com.loudcloud.owm.shared
* Inside page /com.loudcloud.owm.usrmgr/domain.jsp, it includes the content of
another JSP from another webapp /com.loudcloud.owm.shared/header.jsp.  It does
so by getting a request dispatcher

ServletContext ctx2 =
pageContext.getServletContext().getContext("/com.loudcloud.owm.shared");
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = ctx.getRequestDispatcher("/header.jsp");
dispatcher.include(request, response)

This results in the following NullPointerException in Catalina (see stack trace
below).  Also worth mentioning is that both webapps /com.loudcloud.owm.shared
and /com.loudcloud.owm.usrmgr have a Filter set up in the web.xml.  Only the
filter in the /com.loudcloud.owm.usrmgr/domain.jsp request was invoked.  The
filter /com.loudcloud.owm.shared/header.jsp was not invoked.  Is that the
correct behavior with Servlet 2.4?

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2004-03-25 16:15:25,323 FATAL [org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl]
Exception initializing page context
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.getSession(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:546)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.getSession(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:512)
        at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper.getSession(HttpServletRequestWrapper.java:268)
        at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl._initialize(PageContextImpl.java:192)
        at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.initialize(PageContextImpl.java:167)
        at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.internalGetPageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:149)
        at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.getPageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:106)
        at com.loudcloud.owm.shared.header_jsp._jspService(header_jsp.java:52)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:284)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:750)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:636)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:546)
        at com.loudcloud.ps.taglib.GenericBodyTag.doEndTag(GenericBodyTag.java:97)
        at com.loudcloud.owm.usrmgr.domain_jsp._jspService(domain_jsp.java:142)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:284)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
        at
com.opsware.owm.util.channel.ChannelFilter.doFilter(ChannelFilter.java:173)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:233)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:257)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:245)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:199)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
        at
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:587)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
        at
org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:66)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:184)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
        at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:164)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
        at
org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:92)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:156)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:972)
        at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:206)
        at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:833)
        at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:732)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:619)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:688)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

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