Follow Up: in case anyone had the same issue. It was my installation of tomcat. I blew away old instance, downloaded binaries again and this time JSP's compiled fine. My guess is that the original tar ball was either a result of an incomplete download or was just simply the wrong one. Who knows.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian McGovern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:53 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: No jsp compiles I just installed tomcat 5.0.28 and java 1.4.2_06 on redhat and no JSP compiles, with the following error: Even jsp with one line in them Any ideas? org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:520) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:295) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) root cause java.lang.NullPointerException org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.CompilerAdapterFactory.doesModernCompilerExist(CompilerAdapterFactory.java:143) org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.CompilerAdapterFactory.getCompiler(CompilerAdapterFactory.java:97) org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:929) org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:758) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:382) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:472) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:451) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:439) org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:511) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:295) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
