request.getSession().getServletContext().getRealPath("/") with java.lang.NullPointerException

[Deepu Surendran]

Dear all,

I am working on a java web project using struts2. My developing environment is Eclipse+ tomcat on windows

I encountered a problem when I would like to get the path of current project.

This is the code I am using to get the path.
String filePath = request.getSession().getServletContext().getRealPath("/");

But it always returns java.lang.NullPointerException

Hope any experts could give me some help.



Thanks

[Bear Bibeault]

Debugging 101: if you are getting an NPE, then something in the statement is returning null. Try each one to see which it is.