NullPointerException from across the bridge

Question

Hi,
I have a pretty complicated setup. I am using the api exposed by webobjects(Application server from Apple) iin my javabean which communicates with the server to get some data.
after packaging all the required classes in the bean i tried to use it first as a bean itself and invoked the Interface through another class using the following code.
public static void main(String[] args) {
TCBeanInstantiator beanInstantiator = new TCBeanInstantiator();
beanInstantiator.initialise();
System.out.println( beanInstantiator.commodities() );
This works fine.
Now when i try and use it across the bridge with the following code
Dim tcBeanInstance As Object
Set blah = CreateObject("TCBeanInstantiator.Bean.1")
MsgBox "initializing"
tcBeanInstance.initialise
MsgBox "initialized"
MsgBox tcBeanInstance.commodities
The code stops responding for about 30-40 seconds which makes me assume that the connection to the server was successful as there is a lot of processing done once the data is received form the server. But after all this the application throws a java.lang.NullPointerException
I am at a loss as to what i might be doing wrong here. I have implemented the serializable interface in the TCBeanInstatiator class.
Thanks in Advance
Mitul

Answer 1

if it is any help... the messagebox for initializing comes up and then the app dies.
the initialise method is as follows
public void initialise() {
NSMutableDictionary conDict = new NSMutableDictionary();
TCBeanInstantiator.logToFile("dictionary created");
conDict.setObjectForKey( "*******", "applicationURL" );
conDict.setObjectForKey( "com.tradecapture.client.HTTPSChannel", "channelClassName");
conDict.setObjectForKey( "com.tradecapture.client.TCJavaClientApplication", "applicationClassName");
try {
_bean = (TCJavaClientApplication)EOApplication.startApplication(conDict, null, true);
catch(ClassCastException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
this method should not bomb as far as i can see, and moreover it works when it is called from the java code.