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Asked: 2026-05-15T07:57:20+00:00

I’m learning ANT and I’m trying to deploy a web application in tomcat 6.0.20

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I’m learning ANT and I’m trying to deploy a web application in tomcat 6.0.20 server.
I build the test application and I deploy it with the manager ant tasks and everything goes right. I load a HTML page and it works… When I try to view a JSP tomcat give me a JasperException, coused by a NullPointerException in the auto-generated Servlet. The JSP is almost an HTML file with jsp extension. The Exception is throwed in the _jspInit method when it tries to run the following:
_el_expressionfactory = _jspxFactory.getJspApplicationContext(getServletConfig().getServletContext()).getExpressionFactory();
somebody can help me? thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Probably you have jsp-api-*.jar in /WEB-INF/lib. Remove it.

    EDIT: Explanation

    JSP API contains an abstract class JspFactory. It has a static field to store a server-specific JspFactory implementation. So, Tomcat sets a value of this field and JSP page initialization code reads it to obtain a JspFactory implementation. In your case you have two different JspFactory classes – one loaded by server classloader from server jars and another loaded by application classloader from /WEB-INF/lib. Because classes loaded by different classloaders are different classes, they have different static field values, therefore JspFactory obtained by the JSP code (_jspxFactory) is null.

    This illustrates one of the possible problems caused by use of static fields.

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