Hi, Just read through Steve Almond's email, where he notes that classes used by servlets need to be in the servlets directory - and bingo, when I moved the hsql classes into a .\servlets\hsql directory the class not found is resolved. However, I would like to repeat Steve's question - why can't I have these classes at the server level [or site level] as opposed to servlet level ? Kid Regards Neville Burnell Business Manager Software > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Almond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, 27 November 1999 6:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: New user questions .... > > Classes used by servlets > ------------------------ > Although I have specified with <classpath> tages a directory > for other > classes that I'm using, if I want to use them with one of my > servlets, they > must be deployed in my servlets directory. JSPs have no > trouble loading > these classes from where I'd like to store them - so why do > servlets have > this problem? >