我也发现了这样的问题我使用startup.bat将Tomcat服务起来之后，完全没有问题
但是，如果使用Windows的Apache Tomcat服务将Tomcat起来之后，
在输入http://localhost:8080后就出现了和楼主一样的问题。
具体出错信息如下：
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:481)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:136)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:320)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:294)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:286)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:253)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:190)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:156)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:974)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:207)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:637)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:488)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:568)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:631)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
