[Geoserver-users] Weird Null Pointer Exceptions in WMS

Hi All,

Has anyone here ever experienced these exceptions:

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | 4265 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] ERROR org.mortbay.log - Nested in org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name ‘wmsConfig’ defined in URL [jar:file:/C:/LEIA/soa_platform/server/geoserver_1.7.5/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/wms-1.7.5.jar!/applicationContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.vfny.geoserver.config.WMSConfig]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException:

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | java.lang.NullPointerException

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.vfny.geoserver.global.Service.toDTO(Service.java:177)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.vfny.geoserver.global.WMS.toDTO(WMS.java:289)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.vfny.geoserver.config.WMSConfig.(WMSConfig.java:173)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:100)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:87)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:248)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:925)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:835)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:440)

INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/08/31 10:59:32 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)

I get these NullPointerExceptions every now and then and I end up having to blow away my data directory and rebuild it every couple of days.

I’m not changing anything inside geosevrer….only constantly using the WMS to retrieve layers and imagery.

Does anyone have experience with this??

PLEASE RESPOND!!

Ronak Patel