You would need the following: <%@ page language="java" import="beans.FormBean" contentType="text/html" %> <jsp:useBean id="FormBean" class="beans.FormBean" scope="request" />
Also, is your FormBean.class in "webapps\xxx\WEB-INF\classes\beans" directory? Roger Whitcomb Computer Associates Senior Software Engineer Development Phone: +1 408 965 8653 FAX: +1 408 965 8805 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot use bean from jsp, but servlet ok. I'm dying! Help. Absolutely stuck. Tomcat cannot find my bean classes no matter what when called from jsp pages. From within servlets no problem. Here is the jsp --------------- <%@ include file="pub_hdr.html" %> <jsp:usebean id="FormBean" class="beans.FormBean" scope="request" /> <form> <input type="text" name="userName" value="<% =FormBean.getUserName() %>"> <%= FormBean.getErrorMsg("userName") %> </form> <%@ include file="pub_ftr.html" %> Here is the bean ---------------- package beans; import java.util.*; import java.io.Serializable; public class FormBean implements Serializable { public String userName; public FormBean() {} public String getUserName() { return this.userName; } public void setUserName(String uname) { this.userName = uname; } } NO MATTER WHAT, as soon as I access the jsp page. This error comes up. Generated servlet error: C:\jwsdp-1_0\work\Standard Engine\localhost\messagesmith\en\users$jsp.java:126: Undefined variable or class name: FormBean out.print( FormBean.getUserName() ); It certainly seems that TC cannot find the FormBean class which lives here: C:\jwsdp-1_0\webapps\project\WEB-INF\classes\beans. I've changed that scope attribute to application or page, but it doesn't change. With TC3.x I had to do some configuration in the conf/server.xml file, but this doesn't seem necessary w/ TC4. All the same I've adding the following context to the server.xml, but it doesn't help. <Context path="/project" docBase="webapps/project" debug="0" reloadable="true" /> Anyone have any ideas? It is killing me. Again, I can instantiate the FormBean class from within servlets, but not from JSP. Env: ==== Win2k Server, jdk1.4.0_01, TC4.0 Classpath=.;C:\jwsdp-1_0\common\lib\servlet.jar;C:\jwsdp-1_0\webapps\project \WEB-INF\classes;C:\jfreechart-0.9.1\jars\jcommon-0.6.3.jar;C:\jfreechart-0. 9.1\jars\jfreechart-0.9.1.jar; TOMCAT_HOME=C:\jwsdp-1_0 CATALINA_HOME=C:\jwsdp-1_0 JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.0_01
