You should just put the jar file in the lib directory.... try doing it unpacked, so you have: WEB-INF/classes - your servlets/jsp's WEB-INF/lib - your jar I'm not too hot on jsp's,but this works with servlets sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 1:51 PM Subject: Newbie question with classpath and WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes > I have Tomcat 3.2.1 running on Solaris and I have created a .war file > containing my JSP's I want to execute. My JSP's import some classes I have > create to help out with processing. When I call my JSP, I get errors saying > my class isn't found for import. I have tried including the jar'd version > in both the lib and classes directory along with the uncompressed version in > both of those directories with no luck. What am I missing??? Do I need to > add something to the web.xml file? If I add the jar to another directory > that is already in the classpath it works fine. Please help me... > Thanks > Chris >