Root cause of ServletException.
javax.el.ELException: java.lang.NullPointerException
   at javax.el.BeanELResolver.getValue(BeanELResolver.java:266)
   at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:143)
   at com.sun.faces.el.FacesCompositeELResolver.getValue(FacesCompositeELResolver.java:72)
   at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:118)
   at com.sun.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:192)
   Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

Caused By: java.lang.NullPointerException
   at test.hib.backing.UserRegistration.getSplist(UserRegistration.java:112)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

    public UISelectItems getSplist() {
      Session SPsess=null;
      try
      {
      System.out.println("getsplist");       
      SPsess = SessionFac.getSessionFactory().openSession();--error generating line of code.
      ArrayList spstr = new ArrayList();
      spstr = (ArrayList)SPsess.createSQLQuery(spqry).list();
      ArrayList splistsi = new ArrayList();
      Iterator spitr = spstr.iterator();
        while(spitr.hasNext())
        {         
            splistsi.add(new SelectItem(spitr.next()));     
        }
      splist = new UISelectItems();
      splist.setValue(splistsi);
      }
      catch(Exception e)
      {     
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      System.out.println(spqry);
      }
      finally
      {
        SPsess.close();
      }
        return splist;
    }

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
        "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
        "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:sid</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">xyz</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">xyz</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">
net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory
</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">5</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">20</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">1800</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">50</property>
<mapping resource="/test/hib/entities/ServiceRecordInfo.hbm.xml"/>   
<mapping resource="/test/hib/entities/CompanyInfo.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

public class SessionFac {
   
  private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();

  private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory()
      {
          try{
              return (new Configuration()).configure().buildSessionFactory();
          }
          catch(ExceptionInInitializerError ex)
          {
              System.err.println((new StringBuilder()).append("Initial SessionFactory creation failed.").append(ex).toString());
              throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
          }
      }

      public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory()
      {
          return sessionFactory;
      }

      public Session openSession()
      {
          return sessionFactory.openSession();
      }


}