On 7/14/14, 4:26 PM, "Steven Carmody" <steven_carmody at brown.edu> wrote: >yea, I could, but they're often not very helpful. > >SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception >java.lang.NullPointerException That's not a compiler error, that would suggest an actual error in the code. You can't tell that from precompiling them. -- Scott