After closer inspection of the contents of the java console I found the problem. All the configurations such as JAVA_HOME and TOMCAT_HOME were correct. however I noticed a bunch of "OUT OF ENVIRONMENT SPACE" errors so I edited my CONFIG.SYS file to up the amount of memory allocated to environment variables to 1024 bytes and everything worked fine. appearantly by the time the batch file got to the last CLASSPATH addition I was aout of room for environment variables which just so happened to be the CLASSPATH of tools.jar. Daniel (Buster) Nimmons Information Management Specialist Phone: (713) 845-4991 CELL #:(281) 224-8013 Fax #: (713) 640-8717 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Sampa Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 4:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem getting tomcat to run on win32 platform hi , I have alredy included tools.jar file in the class path still.. can u tell the things to be kept in mind while using database or sendRedirect(" a.jsp") regds sampa Raja Nagendra Kumar wrote: > Hi! > > modify your classpath to include jdk's tools.jar file.. You can do this by > editing tomcat.bat file in \bin directory > > Regards, > Nagendra > > Placed At : > > Buster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/10/2000 12:41:46 AM > > Please respond to A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and > reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: Nagendra R/Satyam) > > Subject: problem getting tomcat to run on win32 platform > > I just installed tomcat on a win95 machine. I have no problems grtting the > serlets to run however when I try to run a jsp page I get a 500 internal > server error. the java console gives me the following message > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/tools/javac/Main > > I have "TOMCAT_HOME" set to c:\tomcat > and "JAVA_HOME" set to c:\jdk1.3 > > what am i overlooking > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets