Bug 10972

Summary:	<Realm> without className in server.xml produces NullPointerException
Product:	Tomcat 4	Reporter:	Willis Boyce <wboyce>
Component:	Catalina	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.0 Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Willis Boyce 2002-07-19 02:30:07 UTC

If the className attribute is not included with the <Realm> tag in server.xml, 
the server dies with a cryptic NullPointerException.  It would be nice if it 
produced a more meaningful error message (like "Missing className attribute for 
<Realm> tag").

Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2003-12-27 21:03:09 UTC

Agreed, a more meaningful error message would be nice. However, this is an 
enhancement request.

Comment 2 Jeff Whidby 2004-12-13 10:21:30 UTC

Note that this bug affects you if you accidently spell className classname, so
it can be pretty difficult to find.

Comment 3 Mark Thomas 2010-12-15 12:58:14 UTC

This has been fixed in 7.0.5 and will be included in 7.0.6 onwards.