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I have a web application (some JSP pages) that worked under netbeans 3.6. When I tried Netbeans 4.0 Beta 2, I got an error when I tried to run the project where the deployment to tomcat failed with a null pointer exception. I have a message.log which I will upload with the exception.
Created attachment 18461 [details] Message log that contains the exception.
I cannot reproduce this without more information. Does the project contain META-INF/context.xml file? Is the file read only? Did you have the same problem on other web projects? Thanks.
The project does not have a context.xml. Just a web.xml. This is the only web applicaiton I tried in 4.0. After that I went back to 3.6 where everything works fine. I will upload the war file so you can try this out. It has all the files as it is a jsp-based application.
Created attachment 18672 [details] war file for application with deployment error
we shoud try this in 4.1
Probably already fixed (sorry for way to late response!). I'm testing with trunk build of 4.2 and I am able to create a Web Application from Existing Sources (I did not find any build script) and deploy the app to the bundled tomcat.