Still have an issue with restartContext and finally got around to creating a sample to recreate it:

Error for the sample shows:

09:10:51,234 INFO [HostConfig] restartContext(/check)
09:10:51,250 INFO [Context] Reloading this Context has started
09:10:51,265 WARN [HostConfig] Error during context /check restart
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.WebCtxLoader.start(WebCtxLoader.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4
231)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.reload(StandardContext.java:
3043)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.restartContext(HostConfig.java
:873)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.checkContextLastModified(HostC
onfig.java:759)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1085)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java
:327)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(Lifecycl
eSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.backgroundProcess(StandardHost.
java:800)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.p
rocessChildren(ContainerBase.java:1619)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.p
rocessChildren(ContainerBase.java:1628)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.r
un(ContainerBase.java:1608)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
 PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
 <display-name>hello-world</display-name>

 <description>
 My Hello World servlet.
 </description>

 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>hello-world</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>test.HelloServlet</servlet-class>
 </servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>hello-world</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/test/hello-world</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Host settings in Server.xml:

<Host name="localhost" autoDeploy="true" deployOnStartup="false" deployXML="false">

 <!-- Default context parameters -->
 <DefaultContext cookies="true" crossContext="true" override="true" reloadable="true"/>

 </Host>

HelloServlet:

package test;

import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;

public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet
{

 public void init() throws ServletException
 {
 }

 public void doGet ( HttpServletRequest request,
 HttpServletResponse response)
 throws ServletException, IOException
 {
 PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

 out.println("Hello, betty!");
 out.close();
 }
}

No context.xml.

To get the error just touch the web.xml.

Running 3.2.6 with Tomcat 5.0. Let me know if I need to post any other settings.

Are we missing a necessary setting to get this to work?

Any direction would be appreciated!

garym