hi chris this is steve Burrus and the line of code in question is the
while loop : "while( ( r = in.read(by)) != -1) {" the server error for a
long time has always pointed to that line of code creating the NPE.

Christopher Schultz wrote:

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>Steve,
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>Steve R Burrus wrote:
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>>here is the entire code for the image servlet which I seem to be
>>repeatedly getting that NullPointerException java exception. Any ideas
>>what the problem is ? :
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>What line of code does the NPE show? Please give us the line of code and
>not just the line number.
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>I'm guessing that your JPG file is not being found, so
>sc.getResourceAsStream is returning null.
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>Correct me if I'm wrong, but this generally checks for null:
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>if(null == in)
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>Is there something that I'm not getting??!
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>- -chris
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