DownLoad A File "NullPointerException"

[Zeus]

i get java.lang.NullPointerException.... the code is below


public void service(
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response
) throws IOException{
response.setContentType("text/plain");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition",
"attachment;filename=sample.txt");
ServletContext ctx = getServletContext();
InputStream is = ctx.getResourceAsStream("sample.txt");

int read=0;
byte[] bytes = new byte[BYTES_DOWNLOAD];
OutputStream os = response.getOutputStream();

while((read = is.read(bytes))!= -1){
os.write(bytes, 0, read);
}
os.flush();
os.close();
}
can any one help me to fix the exception

[Tolls]

Use code tags to keep the formatting of your code. Unformatted code is really hard to read.

Also, tell us the full exception (stack trace and all), as well as which line it is occurring on...not the line number, since we won't know where that is, but the actual line of code.

[mangstadt]

ctx.getResourceAsStream() is probably returning null because it can't find the resource. Where is "sample.txt" located? I think you have to prefix the path with a "/":

InputStream is = ctx.getResourceAsStream("/sample.txt");

Also, please add code tags.

[Zeus]

Path pbm only... thanks a lot for ur time.....