newbie problem

["Duraisamy, Kandaprabhu (Kandaprabhu)** CTR **" <kd...@lucent.com>]

Hi all,
I installed tomcat 3.2.1 yesterday and i am unable to run the jsp examples
given.Even in the servlet examples,given i am unable to run some of the
examples.I am getting an error in the run method of thread.It says null
pointer exception and SHA-1 not available.Any idea on where i am going
wrong?

Using CLASSPATH:
c:\tomcat\classes;c:\tomcat\lib\ant.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\jaxp.jar;c:\tomcat\lib
\servlet.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\parser.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\webserver.jar;c:\tomcat\
lib\jasper.jar;.;..;c:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar;C:\ASN1PJAV\WIN32\1.1\lib\OSS.JA
R  on Windows 2000 pro

Stack trace1:
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at
jsp.error._0002fjsp_0002ferror_0002ferr_0002ejsperr_jsp_0._jspService(_0002f
jsp_0002ferror_0002ferr_0002ejsperr_jsp_0.java:132)
	at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja
va:177)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:318)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:391)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79
7)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:210)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

Stack trace 2:
Location: /examples/servlet/SessionExample
Internal Servlet Error:
java.lang.InternalError: internal error: SHA-1 not available.
	at sun.security.provider.SecureRandom.init(SecureRandom.java:89)
	at sun.security.provider.SecureRandom.(SecureRandom.java:68)
	at java.security.SecureRandom.(SecureRandom.java:128)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.SessionIdGenerator.getIdentifier(SessionIdGenerator.j
ava:135)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.SessionIdGenerator.generateId(SessionIdGenerator.java
:177)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.SessionUtil.generateSessionId(SessionUtil.java:180)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.session.StandardManager.getNewSession(StandardManager.java
:379)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.session.StandardSessionInterceptor.newSessionRequest(Stand
ardSessionInterceptor.java:177)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.doNewSessionRequest(ContextManager.jav
a:913)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.RequestImpl.getSession(RequestImpl.java:478)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.facade.HttpServletRequestFacade.getSession(HttpServletRequ
estFacade.java:381)
	at SessionExample.doGet(SessionExample.java:55)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79
7)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:210)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

Thanks

Prabhu