Hi, I am experiencing servelet exception in one of the JSP page when using Tomcat 4.0 beta with JDK 1.3. Since I am not familiar with the Tomcat configuration, I place my jsp pages under a sub-directory, named ses, created under webapps/examples/jsp and startup the tomcat with the associated class files in two different manners: 1) first trial, I placed the tar files in webapps/examples/WEB-INF/lib =09 2) second trial, the classes are expanded in=20 webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes/ses=20 In each of the above cases, I got this Servlet Exception.=20 Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks Here are the exception messages for=20 org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP/usr/tomcat4/work/localhost/examples/jsp/ses/index_jsp.java:86: Class org.apache.jsp.HelpInterface not found. HelpInterface helpInterface =3D null; ^ /usr/tomcat4/work/localhost/examples/jsp/ses/index_jsp.java:89: Class org.apache.jsp.HelpInterface not found. helpInterface=3D (HelpInterface) ^ /usr/tomcat4/work/localhost/examples/jsp/ses/index_jsp.java:94: Class org.apache.jsp.HelpInterface not found. helpInterface =3D (HelpInterface) java.beans.Beans.instantiate(this.getClass().getClassLoader(), "HelpInterface"); ^ 3 errors at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:277) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:501) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(J spServlet.java:175) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServle t.java:187) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:357) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:431) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica tionFilterChain.java:246) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt erChain.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv e.java:255) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.ja va:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 72) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:879) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValv e.java:225) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.ja va:566) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(Authenticator Base.java:469) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.ja va:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 72) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:879) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:217 5) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java :164) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.ja va:566) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:446 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.ja va:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 72) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:879) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve. java:162) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.ja va:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:4 72) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:879) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.j ava:827) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java: 904) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)