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I am new to Struts and I am getting following exception when I try to run a very simple program.
Please help me to resolve this issue, It will be a great help.

Thanks

I am using Struts 1.1 and Tomcat 5.0.14.

-----------------index.jsp-------------------------
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<html:html>
<head>
<html:base/>
</head>
<body>
<html:link page="/CustomerDetails.jsp">Customer Form</html:link>
</body>
</html:html>

----------------------struts-config.xml------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">
<struts-config>
<form-beans>
<form-bean name="CustomerForm" type="mybank.app1.CustomerForm"/>
</form-beans>
<global-forwards>
<forward name="mainpage" path="index.jsp"/>
</global-forwards>
<action-mappings>
<action path="/submitCustomerForm" type="mybank.app1.CustomerAction" name="CustomerForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="CustomerDetails.jsp">
<forward name="success" path="Success.jsp"/>
<forward name="failure" path="Failure.jsp"/>
</action>
</action-mappings>
<controller processorClass="org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor"/>
<message-resources parameter="mybank.app1.App1Messages"/>
</struts-config>

-----------Exception-----------------------
java.lang.NullPointerException
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.pageURL(RequestUtils.java:1596)
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.computeURL(RequestUtils.java:541)
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.computeURL(RequestUtils.java:436)
org.apache.struts.taglib.html.LinkTag.calculateURL(LinkTag.java:495)
org.apache.struts.taglib.html.LinkTag.doStartTag(LinkTag.java:353)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_html_link_0(index_jsp.java:138)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_html_html_0(index_jsp.java:100)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:66)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:311)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)

Please look into this and help me. It would be a great help.

What is the url you used to access the page? The error makes it seem like it can't figure out what the rest of the url should be for you link, and I assume that comes from the request.

Thanks for replying. request url is

There is a <http:link> tag there

http://localhost:8080/App1/index.jsp

"Nirodhaa", please check your private messages for an important administrative message.

Ok, I did a little digging, and I think your problem is that the html:link tag requires some parameters exist in the request object that are put there by your servlet. Since you accessed this jsp directly with out going through the servlet (I'm assuming that your servlet isn't set up to process .jsp request) the link tag crashes.

I think your options are to either create your link with out the html tag, or to set up a dummy action who's form and action class don't do anything and then forward to the jsp.