https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59567
Bug ID: 59567 Summary: NPE in org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner$TldScannerCallbac k.scanWebInfClasses Product: Tomcat 8 Version: 8.0.35 Hardware: PC Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Jasper Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org Reporter: andrei.iva...@gmail.com Upgrading from 8.0.32 to 8.0.35 triggers the following NPE: 18-May-2016 10:14:21.118 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/inventorymanager]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:153) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:940) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1816) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner$TldScannerCallback.scanWebInfClasses(TldScanner.java:401) at org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.scan(StandardJarScanner.java:208) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scanJars(TldScanner.java:262) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scan(TldScanner.java:106) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperInitializer.onStartup(JasperInitializer.java:103) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5261) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147) ... 10 more Seems it's because there's an empty folder WEB-INF/classes/META-INF. The workaround is to create an empty file in that folder. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org