tomcat运行jsp出错，跪求解答！

我用tomcat运行jsp，出现HTTP STATUS 505 错误，我想知道505错误代表什么？还有这是什么原因造成的？错误详情如下：



HTTP Status 500 - 

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type Exception report

message 

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception 

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.NullPointerException
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:532)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:426)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)


root cause 

java.lang.NullPointerException
electric.dbs.Newsdb.selectsql(Newsdb.java:34)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:74)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:384)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)