My classpath contains a jar file which through its manifest file includes other jar files (aka download extensions). However, Japser is not able to access these download extension classes and therefore gives the org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSPC...... message. Inside the jasper.log, 2001-07-03 01:28:57 - Classpath according to the init parameter is: <is empty> Using the DEBUG mode, 2001-07-03 02:56:27 - Compiling with: -encoding UTF8 -classpath <contains the jar file with the download manifest> Any suggestions would be much appreciated! -- Thanks Jacob