actually, the problem in my case was due to .tld file in jakarta jsp 1.1 taglibs. Once I removed the .tld files from the jar, jspc was able to compile with -webapp option just fine. My guess is there is a bug with respect to how jasper compiler handles taglib tld files. For some reason, if there's a .tld file in /mywebapp/WEB-INF/ and the jar file, it tries to use the one in the jar. since the web.xml points to the one in /WEB-INF/, it causes a conflict, which results in NPE. peter lin Kris Schneider wrote:Peter,
Not sure if you're running into the same problem, but here's a thread that didn't get much of a reaction. I haven't filed a bug on this (yet?): http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg62000.html name=smime.p7s --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!