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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "Johannsmeier, Dieter" <Di...@gedas.de> on 2001/02/16 15:54:21 UTC

Error starting of Tomcat-4.0-b1, when using oracle-jdbc driver.

Hi, 

we have problems, when we try to start Tomcat-4.0-b1 (Catalina) including
the 
oracle-jdbc driver (classes12.jar in TOMCAT_HOME/lib). We get the following
error message:

Using CLASSPATH: ..\bin\bootstrap.jar;c:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
addRepositoryInternal: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.addRepositoryInternal(Standar
dClassLoader.java:1073)
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.<init>(StandardClassLoader.ja
va:166)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createSharedLoader(Bootstrap.java:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:122)

( We tested several oracle drivers) 

The same driver works correctly with tomcat 3.2.1. 

Can anybody help us ? 

Best regards and thanks in advance.

Dieter Johannsmeier