thanks, i got rid of that line in my servlet class
and in my other class i changed it to
Statement stmt = new con.createStatement();
(i declared it as a global variable) and i killed the createStatementObj() method
so in my servlet i have
rs = edbc.stmt.executeQuery("SELECT customerID" +
" FROM customer");
and i get this error from apache:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at CustomQuery.doPost(CustomQuery.java:70)
at CustomQuery.doGet(CustomQuery.java:52)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:696)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:809)
at org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet.serveRequest(InvokerServlet.java:417)
at org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet.doGet(InvokerServlet.java:131)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:696)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:809)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:144)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:209)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:432)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:954)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:138)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:432)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:954)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2459)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:132)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:593)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:116)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:593)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:432)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:954)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:432)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:954)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:152)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
and java.Sql does have a createStatement() method, its used to create a statement obj.