jmx-console null pointer exception

[gsrz036]

When I start Jboss (on NT 2000) using run.bat, things appear to start OK (lots of info - couple of warnings but nothing that looks disastrous), but when I try to bring jmx-console up in my browser (IE5.5) I get the following error (clipped from the browser window)


org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:479)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:184)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:289)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:240)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:260)


with a root cause of

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils.resolveFile(FileUtils.java:330)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.resolveFile(Project.java:618)
at org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path.resolveFile(Path.java:451)
at org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path.translatePath(Path.java:353)
at org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path$PathElement.setPath(Path.java:119)
at org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path.setPath(Path.java:167)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:262)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:324)
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:474)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:184)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:289)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:240)




I thought I'd try to start with debug options to try and find what file wasn't being located, but when I added the -Xdebug option to the java start line, the console starts OK.

I couldn't use remote debugging because my jdb session couldn't attach to shared memory.

Any ideas how I can find what file is not being located?

I could leave the -Xdebug option in my java start line but would like to resolve this if possible.

Thanks for any help you can give.

tc

[juha]

make sure you have set up JAVA_HOME correctly

[gsrz036]

Thanks for looking at this.

My JAVA_HOME looks OK. It is echo'd by run.bat at startup and shows

JBoss Bootstrap Environment
.
JBOSS_HOME: C:\JAVAUTILS\jboss-3.0.4\bin\\..
.
JAVA: C:\Progra~1\jdk13~1.1_0\bin\java
.
. JAVA_HOME: C:\Progra~1\jdk13~1.1_0
.
JAVA_OPTS: -Dprogram.name=run.bat
.
CLASSPATH: ;C:\Progra~1\jdk13~1.1_0\lib\tools.jar;C:\JAVAUTILS\jboss-3.0.4\bin
\\run.jar;CLASSPATH


The above fails with the error in my original post,


.
JBoss Bootstrap Environment
.
JBOSS_HOME: C:\JAVAUTILS\jboss-3.0.4\bin\\..
.
JAVA: C:\Progra~1\jdk13~1.1_0\bin\java
.
. JAVA_HOME: C:\Progra~1\jdk13~1.1_0
.
JAVA_OPTS: -Xdebug -Dprogram.name=run.bat
.
CLASSPATH: ;C:\Progra~1\jdk13~1.1_0\lib\tools.jar;C:\JAVAUTILS\jboss-3.0.4\bin
\\run.jar;CLASSPATH
.

The addition of the -Xdebug to the JAVA_OPTS makes it work. Is it a case of not having all the jar files available in the right place?

Thanks again.

tc