[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Rendering email from a servlet

I am trying to send html email from a servlet and could use some help. I have added the following to my components.xml file as described in chapter 21 of the reference manual (Section 21.1.2.5. Context management for custom servlets): <web:context-filter url-pattern="/servlet/*" /> With the above in place, my servlet can retrieve a non-null Renderer (org.jboss.seam.core.Renderer) using the following: Renderer renderer = (Renderer) Component.getInstance("org.jboss.seam.core.renderer"); I then try to use the renderer: renderer.render("/WEB-INF/email/test-email.xhtml"); but this throws an exception as shown in the stacktrace below. Do I need to somehow provide more context for the renderer? Note that for this test the xhtml file has no dynamic content, although I am hoping to make it dynamic at some point. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The following is the stack trace that results from the call to the renderer: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.(ApplicationAssociate.java:143) at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.(ApplicationImpl.java:156) at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationFactoryImpl.getApplication(ApplicationFactoryImpl.java:97) at org.jboss.seam.mock.MockFacesContext.(MockFacesContext.java:62) at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.FaceletsRenderer$Context.wrap(FaceletsRenderer.java:59) at org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.FaceletsRenderer.render(FaceletsRenderer.java:110) at com.el.util.mail.EmailServlet.processRequest(EmailServlet.java:54) at com.el.util.mail.EmailServlet.doGet(EmailServlet.java:82) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:718) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:411) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:317) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:63) at org.jboss.seam.web.ContextFilter.doFilter(ContextFilter.java:56) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:57) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:60) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:79) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198) at org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:368) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:271) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:94) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:571) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1080) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:571) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1080) at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:270) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(DefaultProcessorTask.java:637) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.doProcess(DefaultProcessorTask.java:568) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.process(DefaultProcessorTask.java:813) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.executeProcessorTask(DefaultReadTask.java:339) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:261) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:212) at com.sun.enterprise.web.portunif.PortUnificationPipeline$PUTask.doTask(PortUnificationPipeline.java:361) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:265) at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ssl.SSLWorkerThread.run(SSLWorkerThread.java:106) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115051#... 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