Initiating servlet Tomcat 4.0

Question

Hi,
I have servlet that worked fine when I was
using tomcat 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 but now when
I upgraded to tomcat 4.0 the entire server crashes
while initiating my servlet.
The servlet throws an exception when I call
getServletConfig or getServletContext.
Anybody had similar problems ?
I am runninng Tomcat 4.0 on Windows 2000 with java 1.3.
/guha

Answer 1

Correction, the server does not crash, but the servlet throws an exception
while executing the init section of the servlet. the error message from
this exception is null. My init looks like this,
the exception is thrown while executing the first two lines
in the init method
try
props = new ServletProperties(getServletConfig());
ServletContext context = this.getServletContext();
errorHandler = new ErrorHandler(context,props);
dbConn = new DBStateHolder(errorHandler,props);
dbConn.createConnectionCache();
catch (Exception ex)
System.err.print("Error initiating servlet: " + ex.getMessage());