Problem registering ServletContextListener

[raghu dubey]

Hi,

I am trying to run the HFSJ example on pg 170...for the ContextListener topic. I get an nullpointer when I use the URL. Here are the lines I found in tomcat logs:

SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class com.example.MyServletContextListener
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.example.MyServletContextListener
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet ListenerTester threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.example.ListenerTester.doGet(ListenerTester.java:16)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
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I checked the listener name in DD, but is is fine. All the classes alos compile good. Can you please help on whats goingt wrong...using tomcat 5.5.25.

[Christophe Verré]

Please post MyServletContextListener.java, and also the way you registered it in web.xml.

[raghu dubey]

Hi Chris,

Here is the Web.xml:

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<servlet>
<servlet-name>ListenerTester</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.example.ListenerTester</servlet-class>

<init-param>
<param-name>adminEmail</param-name>
<param-value>[e-mail]</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ListenerTester</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/ListenTest.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<context-param>
<param-name>breed</param-name>
<param-value>Great Dane</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
<listener-class>
com.example.MyServletContextListener
</listener-class>

</listener>
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package com.example;

import javax.servlet.*;

public class MyServletContextListener implements ServletContextListener{

public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce){

ServletContext sc = sce.getServletContext();
String dogBreed = sc.getInitParameter("breed");
Dog d = new Dog(dogBreed);
System.out.println(d);
sc.setAttribute("dog",d);

}

public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce){

}

}

[Christophe Verré]

Where did you put MyServletContextListener.class ? Under WEB-INF/classes/com/example ?