[JCR-2364] NullPointerException when accessing the about.jsp page because of missing /META-INF/NOTICE.TXT

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.1, 2.0-beta3
• Component/s: jackrabbit-standalone
• Environment: Launching jackrabbit-standalone-2.0-beta1.jar with Ubuntu Jaunty / Sun Java 1.6.0_14-b08
• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Sébastien Launay
• Created: 26/Oct/09 13:21
• Updated: 15/Jan/10 18:15
• Resolved: 28/Oct/09 16:35

Description

Accessing http://localhost:8080/about.jsp produces:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jsp.about_jsp.output(org.apache.jsp.about_jsp:39)
at org.apache.jsp.about_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.about_jsp:103)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:109)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:389)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:486)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:380)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:502)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:363)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:417)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler.handle(RequestLogHandler.java:49)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:534)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:864)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:533)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:207)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:403)
at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228)
at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:522)

This is because the jar misses the following file:
/META-INF/NOTICE.TXT
but there is /NOTICE.TXT and /META-INF/NOTICE

This problem is not reproducible with jackrabbit-webapp-2.0-beta1.war.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: JCR-2285 NPE in about.jsp