Hi! I'm working on windows NT station with jakarta-tomcat! i have tested the samples ! but when i try mine it fails: i have cretaed a directory called search that i've put in webapps directory then created two subdirectories one called Web-inf and the other jsp, i've put the test1.jsp in jsp directory and the class file "searching.class" in a subdirectory called classes within web-inf! the test1.jsp looke like : <jsp:usebean id="search" class="Searching" scope="request"/> <jsp:setProperty name="search" property="Query" value="kaoutar"/> <html> <head> <title>search</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <form name="form1" method="get"> <p> <input type="text" name="key_word" value="kaoutar"> <input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Search"> </p> </form> <H2> value=<jsp:getProperty name="search" property="Query"/> </H2> </body> </html> The error is : Error: 500 Location: /search/jsp/test1.jsp Internal Servlet Error: javax.servlet.ServletException at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:386) NB: i skipped the setproperty and all the stuff... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.