Thanks for the help. I did what you suggested. I deployed the application-examples.war that came with the JSTL distribution, which runs properly. It was also suggested that: CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/lib/*.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/*.jar:$AXISCLASSPATH cannot be properly parsed by Linux/Unix. "The /*.jar statements won't parse correctly under any version of *nix that I know of ;-)." so I modified my CLASSPATH to: CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/lib:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib:$AXISCLASSPATH
When I run application-examples.war, I get this result (selected): org.apache.catalina.jsp_classpath = /opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/webapps/application-examples/WEB-INF/classes/ :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/webapps/application-examples/WEB-INF/lib/taglibs-application.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/shared/classes/:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/classes/ :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/endorsed/xercesImpl.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/endorsed/xmlParserAPIs.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/jasper-compiler.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/jmx.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/commons-el.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/commons-collections.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/naming-java.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/commons-pool.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/jasper-runtime.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/naming-factory.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/servlet-api.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/naming-resources.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/commons-dbcp.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/ant.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/naming-common.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/jsp-api.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/mysql-connector-java-3.0.9-stable-bin.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/j2ee.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/jstl.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/common/lib/standard.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/lib/tools.jar :/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar :/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext/jstl.jar :/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext/ldapsec.jar:/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar :/opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext/standard.jar I also added jstl.jar and standard.jar to <CATALINA_HOME>/common/lib so all my web-apps can use it. JSP applications with custom taglibs can be run properly in my server, only when I try to use the JSTL distribution that it fails. Can one reason be that taglibs v1.0 is not supported by Tomcat 5.*.*? I'm trying to run JSTL application examples that came with "Tomcat Kick Start" by M. Bond, and D. Law. This book applies to Tomcat 4.* and Taglib v1.0. My next recourse is to convert the apps to its most current version. Thanks again. On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:05, Kris Schneider wrote: > Your classpath shouldn't matter. The TC startup script will ignore it and build > its own. Have you tried deploying the standard-examples.war application that > comes with the JSTL distribution? Have you modified either your TC or JDK > install? For example, by adding or removing JAR files, perhaps for XML parsers? > > Quoting Anna Lissa Saupan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > My current server has the following environment: > > Tomcat Version => Apache Tomcat/5.0.12 > > JVM Version => 1.4.2-b28 > > JVM Vendor => Sun Microsystems Inc. > > Redhat Linux 9 > > OS Name => Linux > > OS Version => 2.4.20-8 > > OS Architecture => i386 > > Tag Library => 1.1 > > > > Profile setup (selected): > > CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/lib/*.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/*.jar:$AXISCLASSPATH > > > AXISCLASSPATH=$AXIS_LIB/axis.jar:$AXIS_LIB/commons-discovery.jar:$AXIS_LIB/commons-logging.jar:$AXIS_LIB/jaxrpc.jar:$AXIS_LIB/saaj.jar:$AXIS_LIB/log4j-1.2.8.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed/xercesImpl.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed/xml-apis.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed/xmlParserAPIs.jar:$AXIS_LIB/wsdl4j.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/activation.jar > > > > servlet-api.jar can be found in <CATALINA_HOME>/common/lib > > > > I'm trying to run JSP applications that uses JSTL but I get this error > > all the time. I get the same error even while running the simplest JSTL > > application. > > > > Here is the Server Error that I get: > > > > HTTP Status 500 - > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > type Exception report > > > > message > > > > description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented > > it from fulfilling this request. > > > > exception > > > > > > javax.servlet.ServletException: > > javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:256) > > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856) > > > > root cause > > > > > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > > javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator > > java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537) > > java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) > > java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251) > > java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55) > > java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194) > > java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > > java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537) > > java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) > > java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251) > > java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55) > > java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194) > > java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > > java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:282) > > sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274) > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) > > > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1278) > > > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1212) > > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.createValidator(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:654) > > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.parseTLD(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:293) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:204) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:460) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:525) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1625) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:173) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:247) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:149) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:135) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:243) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:451) > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:437) > > org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:555) > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:291) > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301) > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248) > > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856) > > > > note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat > > logs. > > > > > > ************ > > ************ > > > > Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]