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tomcatservletsnullpointerexceptionjax-rs
user1958756
user1958756

Reputation: 377

java.lang.NullPointerException from org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass

What causes this? This appears to be a very comon error with myriad causes.

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
    java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.putVal(Unknown Source)
    java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.putIfAbsent(Unknown Source)
    java.lang.ClassLoader.getClassLoadingLock(Unknown Source)
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1149)
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1116)
    org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:510)
    org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
    org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
    org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:349)
    org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:1110)
    org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
    org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:785)
    org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1425)
    org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:52)
    java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/8.5.3 logs.

Here are the includes:

import java.util.Set;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;

Adding web.xml Please note: I have tried multiple values for the url-pattern and all it seems to do is change the URI on which I get the error. 'Hello' is the class name in the java source.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app 
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
        xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">

        <servlet>
        <servlet-name>HelloWorldTomcatService</servlet-name>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>com.package.from.java.file</param-name>
            <param-value>Hello</param-value>
        </init-param>
        </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>HelloWorldTomcatService</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern></url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 13929

Answers (1)

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1108682

java.lang.NullPointerException
    java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.putVal(Unknown Source)
    java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.putIfAbsent(Unknown Source)
    java.lang.ClassLoader.getClassLoadingLock(Unknown Source)
    org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1149)

This specific one can be caused by a web.xml entry which expects a <xxx-class> such as <servlet-class>, <filter-class> or <listener-class>, but it is actually absent or empty.

And indeed, your <servlet> entry is missing the <servlet-class>. It should refer the FQN of the servlet class you'd like to register under the name as specified by <servlet-name> like below.

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>someServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.example.SomeServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

That said, your <init-param><param-name> also doesn't look good if it is actually the JAX-RS servlet you tried to register. Are you sure you're reading the right tutorials/resources as to learning JAX-RS and integrating it in Tomcat? A well known one is provided by Lars Vogel.

Upvotes: 2

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