JSP throwing 500 error when reading ELSE statement

If my array has items in it the for loop executes fine but if it's empty and goes to the else I get a null pointer HTTP 500 error...what am I doing wrong?

<% out.print("<ul>");

         if(p.getToppings().length != 0) {    
        for (int x = 0; x < p.getToppings().length; x++) { 
        out.print("<li>");
            out.print(p.getToppings()[x]); 
            out.print("<br>");


        out.print("</li>");

        }

        } else {
        out.print("No Toppings"); 
        } %>