I've got a maddening problem. I've posted it to this forum before on 2-Oct-2003, without success. I'm hoping to hear from some Tomcat developers or anyone who knows Windows services very well.
I've got three Web apps, packaged into WARs, that all use Jakarta's JSTL. The first one is an echo JSP, the second is a JSP that allows users to type ad hoc SQL into a textarea and returns the results, and the third is a work app that I need to deploy for my employer. All three apps run perfectly under Tomcat 4.1.27 running as a service on Windows 2000 on my desktop. The problem is that I'm deploying the work on a server that will only have Tomcat 4.0.6. There's a third-party vendor who deploys their app on Tomcat 4.0.6, so I'm forced to use that version. The natural thing to do is to test all three apps under Tomcat 4.0.6. I deployed the identical WAR files that ran successfully under 4.1.27 and ran them under Tomcat 4.0.6 after modifying the server.xml. The echo JSP and ad hoc SQL tool both deploy and run flawlessly. Both use the JSTL tag libraries without a problem. When I access the work app, I get a JasperException: "No such tag redirect in the tag library imported with prefix c". The oddest thing is that if I run the work app under Tomcat 4.0.6 by starting it using the startup.bat instead of running it as a service it runs perfectly again. No JasperException. The Tomcat Windows service runs under the local system account. Yoav Shapiro suggested that I start up Tomcat with the script instead of running it as a service. After he heard the result he threw up his hands, saying it was a bad interaction between Windows and Tomcat. Why should the way in which Tomcat is started and run make such a profound difference? Does anyone know enough about running Windows services to comment? I really need to make this work app run under 4.0.6. It'll be a hard sell to ask the 3rd party vendor to test and certify their stuff running under 4.1.27 now. - MOD __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
