The problem is that for a recurring task the threadlocalservlet is null because there was no request that triggered the function. Fixing this requires some changes in url handling, the contextpath/absolute location needs to be cached to make it work for recurring tasks.

exception occured while executing timed function: invoke notifyModerators() every 1 minutes
exception message: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at utils.ThreadLocalServlet.getContextPath(ThreadLocalServlet.java:16)
    at utils.PageServlet.getAbsoluteLocation(PageServlet.java:3902)
    at webdsl.generated.functions.notifyModerators_.notifyModerators_(notifyModerators_.java:29)
    at utils.DispatchServlet$5.run(DispatchServlet.java:206)
    at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
    at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)

Submitted by Danny Groenewegen on 26 September 2011 at 16:02