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Asher Tarnopolski
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hey folks, from time to time one of my servlets throws a nullpointerexception with this tree:

i can't understand from the exception message if this is a problem of code, but in any case the exception is thrown from time to time and not always...
yeh, the servlet runs on tomcat 4.0.

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What do you find when you look up line 673 in source code for the StandardWrapper class, org.apache.catalina.core package? That might give you a clue.
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exam all the log files in logs folder you may find more useful debug info.

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Asher Tarnopolski
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well, i'll take a look on the log files later. i can't see the 673 line of the source code. it's one of the tomcat classes, and i don't have the source code.
i found out that this exception is thrown if i recompile a servlet and try to run it again without restarting tomcat.
so, at least i know how to deal with it now
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i found out that this exception is thrown if i recompile a servlet and try to run it again without restarting tomcat

I suspect that your servlet uses other objects and does not handle objects creation properly. When a servlet is refreshed, other servlet/classes may also get destroyed.
Do you store objects in session?
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yeh, it uses sessions and db connectivity, but as you see the exception is not thrown by a code
itself, but by tomcat...
in any case, in production noone will recompile the servlet , and for sure not when it's running.
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Well then - download the source code - its free and even fairly well annotated.
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I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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