Forget classpath -- it's ignored in Tomcat 5.5 and as I remember, was
being phased out in Tomcat 3 (wow -- have I been reading these mail
lists for that long??).

If you put your classes and jars in the right places, they will be
found. In your case, the classes are being found, but some underlying
code in biz.shipflex.Configuration is throwing an NPE.

--David

Sam Halicke wrote:

>Hi all, first time posting to the list.
>
>I'm having several problems migrating JSPs and class/jar files to Tomcat
>5.5.7 from Tomcat 3. I understand this is a big move, but I'm trying to
>avoid any rewrite of the JSPs themselves. Documentation for tomcat 5.5.x is
>rather sparse and terribly cryptic.
>
>Each webapp is using its own local classes (which I have copied into the
>local WEB-INF directory in /classes /lib etc.), as well as some common
>classes/jars which have been copied into the /tomcat/common/ directory tree.
>Should I be using the /tomcat/shared/ tree? This does not seem to matter as
>jasper will consistently throw me errors from compiling the JSPs.
>
>Here is the root cause of one such error:
>
>HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error
>
>ROOT CAUSE
>java.lang.NullPointerException
>  biz.shipflex.Configuration.getConfiguration(Configuration.java:51)
>
>org.apache.jsp.ShipFlex.Website.MainPage_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.Ship
>Flex.Website.MainPage_jsp:52)
>  org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service (HttpJspBase.java:99)
>  javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:802)
>
>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service (JspServletWrapper.java:3
>25)
>  org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile (JspServlet.java:295)
>  org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service (JspServlet.java:245)
>  javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:802)
>
>My basic setup is as follows:
>
>Apache 2.x    /usr/local/apache
>Tomcat 5.5.7  /usr/local/tomcat
>
>[root@(protected)
>/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/Common/Classes/:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/Shipping
>/Classes/:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/scripts/Classes/:/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_01/l
>ib/
>
>I have a feeling its something with my CLASSPATH, again, this is a touchy
>migration.
>
>I'll gladly copy any portions of web.xml and/or server.xml, etc to an
>additional message if needed. Any help or suggestions on things/files to
>look at would be most appreciated.
>
>TIA
>********************************************
>Sam Halicke
>Systems Administrator
>IMSure Network, Inc.
>
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