From: "Theodore Petrosky" <webobjects-dev@wocommunity.org>
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Subject: strange null app error
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I have an app that uses Jasperreports. In Eclipse, I have a folder 
resources/JasperReports and all the .jasper files are here. In 
development in Eclipse it works. However, when I transfer the app to the 
Ubuntu server the app cannot find the .jasper files. the error is:

Apr 22 19:21:06 ASBriefs[2002] ERROR 
er.extensions.appserver.ERXApplication  - Exception caught: 
org.apache.commons.lang.exception.NestableRuntimeException:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.net.URL.getFile()" 
because the return value of 
"er.extensions.foundation.ERXFileUtilities.pathURLForResourceNamed(String, 
String>

So the app is not finding the resources in resources/JasperReports. Is 
there anything I can add to the Properties to help the app find these 
files. Obviously, I can just leave the .jasper files up one level in the 
resources folder but I am trying to keep things clean.

Ted