Re: Strange NullPointerException Error in t4.0b7

[Ravishankar S <ra...@zworg.com>]

"Paul Kofon" <pk...@hotmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> Hi All,
> I recently downloaded and installed Tomcat 4.0 b7. I found it to be quite 
> responsive and remarkably faster than it's predecessors. However, my joy was 
> short-lived when I found out an application which I had written and 
> extensively tested under Tomcat 3.2.2. was not working in the T4.0 b7 
> environment - I kept getting a NullPointerException error. I snooped around 
> a bit and found out that the following piece of code was the culprit:
> 
> File directory = new File("../webapps/humantrack/forms");
> File files[] = directory.listFiles();
> 
> Now, here's the strange thing: "directory" isn't null but the array, 
> files[], is! This code works without change in T3.2.2 as files[] doesn't 
> return a null value. What's wrong?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> paul did u try to catch the exception and have u initialized files to null initially???
> 
> ravi
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