Howdy, See Mr. Morelock's reply: you need the JDK, not the JRE, as your $JAVA_HOME. And if you have a lot of JSPs, consider using Jikes at runtime or JSPC to pre-compile your JSPs, as Javac has a memory leak (see the README file).
To The Powers That Be: We have to put this question in a FAQ somewhere ;) Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Gordon L. Mc Lellan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:05 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: tomcat probs > >Greetings... > >I'm having a "newbie" related issue with tomcat, but I feel it is more >related to the J2RE than to tomcat itself. > >I have tried installing tomcat on 3 systems today, and although the install >appears to be successfull, whenever I try to execute any of the enclosed >JSP >examples, I get a huge (long) exception error > >I haven't been able to find this exact error on google, nor on the jakarta >website's faq. > >The systems I've tried it on: > >fresh redhat 7.3, x86, (everything installed [3 cd's worth! {bad idea, i >know}]) >older redhat 7.2, x86, (very spartan install) >win xp pro, x86, (too much junk to count) > >I've tried j2re version's 1.3.1 and 1.4.0 on all three systems. > >On the linux systems, j2re installed itself into /usr/java/jre-1.3.1_03 >(and >something similar for 1.4), which I symlinked to /usr/java/jdk for the >JAVA_HOME env varible, as well as the similar line in the tomcat3.conf file > >On the windows box, I told j2re to install to c:\java\jdk and tomcat >unzipped into c:\java\tomcat ... I also did a set JAVA_HOME="c:\java\jdk" >prior to running startup.bat just to be sure. > >Any thoughts I what I'm doing wrong? > >Thanks in advance, > >Gordon > >exception (as reported by tomcat 4): >javax.servlet.ServletException: sun/tools/javac/Main > at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:485) > (snip) > at >org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java :110 >7 >) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > >root cause (as reported by tomcat 4): >java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/tools/javac/Main > at >org.apache.jasper.compiler.SunJavaCompiler.compile(SunJavaCompiler.java :136 >) > (snip) > at >org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java :110 >7 >) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
