If you are runing win98 just copy the following to your autoexec.bat. Make sure that classpath variables are in the same line like the following: set classpath= all the *.jar in one line path C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\jdk1.2.2\bin;C:\Tomcat\bin set classpath=.;C:\jdk1.2.2\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\Tomcat\lib\servlet.jar;C:\Tomcat\lib\ant.jar;C:\Tomcat\lib\jasper.jar;C:\Tomcat\lib\jaxp.jar;C:\Tomcat\lib\webserver.jar;C:\Tomcat\lib\webserver.jar;C:\Tomcat\lib\parser.jar;C:\jdk1.2.2\lib\tools.jar set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.2.2 set TOMCAT_HOME=C:\Tomcat set JAKARTA_HOME=C:\jakarta-ant then do the following: c:\autoexec.bat that's it, by the way took a month to figure out. so is not simple ? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.