Bug 59206

Summary:	When catalina.base is not specified, ConfigFileLoader throws an NPE in a static initializer
Product:	Tomcat 7	Reporter:	asheldon
Component:	Catalina	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	asheldon
Priority:	P2
Version:	7.0.68
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description asheldon 2016-03-21 21:11:37 UTC

Using Tomcat 7 as an embedded servlet and updating to Tomcat 7.0.68, we found our application no longer started due to an ExceptionInInitializerError.

This problem was introduced by the change for https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56777, which includes https://github.com/apache/tomcat70/blob/trunk/java/org/apache/tomcat/util/file/ConfigFileLoader.java. This file, on line 37, loads the system property "catalina.base" and, when it is not set, throws a NullPointerException.

It seems like it would be preferable if, when catalina.base is not specified, to avoid this NPE.

Comment 1 Violeta Georgieva 2016-03-22 20:45:34 UTC

Hi,

Thanks for the report.
The fix will be available from 9.0.0.M5, 8.5.1, 8.0.34 and 7.0.69 onwards.

Regards,
Violeta

Comment 2 asheldon 2016-03-22 20:51:17 UTC

Thank you!