On 12/30/2000 at 11:14 AM S Joseph wrote: > My classpath is correctly set up to include d:\tomcat\classes and all the jar files in tomcat\lib directory ie; ant.jar, jasper.jar,jaxp.jar,parser.jar,servlet.jar and webserver.jar Tomcat uses its own classloaders, and doesn't need much there to actually run. It may be something is being loaded twice (webserver.jar?), and this is causing the exception. Try trimming your classpath down to ".;d:\tomcat\classes;" and see if that gets you past the exception. (Later, if you need to do development on the same machine, look at using Ant to compile your projects, since it can manage the classpath dependancies for you.) >Can anyone tell me what all that %2 %3 etc means. Are they the command line parameters?? Yes, in order of appearance. >I guess this class file should be in one of the jar files in lib directory Yes. The tomcat classes are in the webserver.jar. If you want to peek, you can drag a JAR file into WinZIP, or any other ZIP program, to see what's inside. Also, be sure that you are starting out with the latest 3.2.x release of Tomcat. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. -- Tel 716 425-0252; Fax 716 223-2506. -- http://www.husted.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]