Hi

Got a NPE whne executing this small build.xml 

<project name='all' default='ftp'>
   <target name="ftp">
      <ftp password="SYS1" server="ADCD" userid="IBMUSER"
	remotedir="'MYPROJ.'" separator='.'
    		action ="list" verbose='true' listing='list.txt'>
		    <fileset dir='ASM'>
		        <include name="**"/>
		    </fileset>
		</ftp>
	</target>
</project>



java -version
java version "1.6.0_10"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-b33)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.0-b15, mixed mode, sharing)


D:\Anubex\DEV\common\framework\online\adcd>ant -v
Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006
Buildfile: build.xml
Detected Java version: 1.5 in: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_12\jre
Detected OS: Windows XP
parsing buildfile D:\Anubex\DEV\common\framework\online\adcd\build.xml with URI = file:/D:/Anubex/DE
common/framework/online/adcd/build.xml
Project base dir set to: D:\Anubex\DEV\common\framework\online\adcd
Build sequence for target(s) `ftp' is [ftp]
Complete build sequence is [ftp, ]

ftp:
[antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It co
found.
      [ftp] Opening FTP connection to ADCD
      [ftp] connected
      [ftp] logging in to FTP server
      [ftp] login succeeded
      [ftp] changing the remote directory
      [ftp] listing files
      [ftp] disconnecting

BUILD FAILED
D:\Anubex\DEV\common\framework\online\adcd\build.xml:8: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:115)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1329)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1298)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1181)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:698)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:199)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.checkRemoteSensitivity(FTP.java
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.forceRemoteSensitivityCheck(FTP
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.scan(FTP.java:231)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java:1570)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java:1683)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.execute(FTP.java:2373)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105)
        ... 11 more
--- Nested Exception ---
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.checkRemoteSensitivity(FTP.java
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.forceRemoteSensitivityCheck(FTP
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.scan(FTP.java:231)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java:1570)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java:1683)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.execute(FTP.java:2373)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
        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.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1329)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1298)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1181)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:698)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:199)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104)

Total time: 2 seconds
D:\Anubex\DEV\common\framework\online\adcd>