Bug 44554 - Null Pointer exception deploying WAR
Summary: Null Pointer exception deploying WAR
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 5
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Catalina (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.26
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2008-03-07 05:17 UTC by Olivier Smadja
Modified: 2008-03-10 16:52 UTC (History)
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Description Olivier Smadja 2008-03-07 05:17:56 UTC 
When deploying a WAR that has a file in it with a name like 'Cópia de '*, Tomcat throws the following exception:
A war that reproduce the problem has been attached.

07/03/2008 10:13:29 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_09\bin;.;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\o\tools\apache-ant-1.6.5\bin;O:\myProjects\cetip\projects\ranger\dev\apache-maven-2.0.8\bin
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 609 ms
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.26
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive test.war
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase addChildInternal
SEVERE: ContainerBase.addChild: start: 
LifecycleException:  Error initializaing :  java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3986)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:831)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:720)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
07/03/2008 10:13:30 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
SEVERE: Error deploying web application archive test.war
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: LifecycleException:  Error initializaing :  java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:764)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:831)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:720)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
07/03/2008 10:13:31 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
07/03/2008 10:13:31 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
07/03/2008 10:13:31 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/31  config=null
07/03/2008 10:13:31 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
07/03/2008 10:13:31 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1188 ms
Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2008-03-10 16:52:25 UTC 
Your war file is malformed. I get this error if I use 7zip to create the war but if I use the jar command line tool and set URIEncoding="UTF-8" in the connector then it works correctly.