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/* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4"> <servlet> <servlet-name>DeliberateException</servlet-name> <servlet-class>DeliberateException</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>DeliberateException</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/deliberateException</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> */ import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.ServletConfig; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; public class DeliberateException extends HttpServlet { public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); throw new NullPointerException(); } public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws IOException, ServletException { ServletOutputStream out = res.getOutputStream(); res.setContentType("text/html"); out.println("<html><head><title>Exception Thrower</title></head>"); out.println("<body>You'll never see this!</body></html>"); } }