I'm just getting started with my JSP and tomcat experience, and while learning how JSP works, I'm can't get tomcat to recognize supporting class definitions that I have placed in <myapp>/WEB-INF/classes.
Here's my setup: * tomcat 5.0.19, running on RedHat Linux 9.0 Pro * no customization to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml no customization to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml added my user account as a manager in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml * I'm running tomcat using the $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh * I'm running tomcat as my normal login id, although I've also tried it as root just to make sure it wasn't a file permissions issue. * I'm able to use the Tomcat manager at http://localhost:8080/manager to start/stop/reload/deploy applications * The jsp-examples appear to work fine Here's what I'm trying to do: * Created the following "index.jsp" and placed it in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/test <html><body> <form method=post action ="savename.jsp"> What's your name? <input type=text name=username size=20> What's your email? <input type=text name=email size=20> <P><input type=submit> </form></body></html> * Created the following as $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/test/savename.jsp <jsp:useBean id="user" class="UserData" scope="session"/> <jsp:setProperty name="user" property="*"/> <html><body> Name: <%= user.getUsername() %><BR> Email: <%= user.getEmail() %><BR> </body></html> * Created a UserData.java file that defines a public class UserData with username and email fields as type String. Added public access methods for setUsername, getUsername, setEmail, getEmail. I compiled UserData.java using javac, and to produce UserData.class which I placed in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/test/WEB-INF/classes. The UserData.java class does not define a package nor does it import anything (line 1 is "public class UserData") * deployed the "test" application using the tomcat manager and it shows that the application is deployed with no errors. * Using IE 6.0, I enter the url to test.jsp and it displays the form as expected. I enter a name and email value into the form and press the submit button and I get the following: HTTP Status 500 - exception org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP An error occurred at line: 1 in jsp file: /savename.jsp Generated sevlet error: [javac] Compiling 1 source file <...>/work/Catalina/localhost/test/org/apache/jsp/savename_jsp.java:42 symbol : class UserData location: class org.apache.jsp.savename_jsp UserDAta user = null I suspect this is a classpath issue but everything I read says that if you put your classes in <appdir>/WEB-INF/classes, it will just work. There must be some basic thing I'm missing. Any help would be very much apprciated. Thanks in advance. -Andy. -- ############################### # Andy Wadsworth # # # # BondMart Technologies, Inc. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # # ############################### --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
