Charles, The bean is actually on the same page in a declaration block. If I pull the bean out and put it into it's own class file, I can get it to work. I was just trying to get the example from the tutorial to work. It seems to work on the tutorial site, but I'm not sure what application server they are using.
-jeff --- Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Jeff Ousley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I cannot seem to get this example below to work > > under > > tomcat (I'm using version 4.1.18). I get an error > > indicating that the class localBean cannot be > found > > such as: > > > > > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: localBean > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1428) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1274) > > .... > > > > > > > > I tried doing an import (which is now commented > out) > > to no avail. Can I not have a bean in my jsp page? > > If > > I can, how do I reference it or what do I set so > > that > > it can be found? > > > > thanks! > > > > > > > > example page > > ------------ > > > > <HTML> > > <%-- <%@ page import="localBean" %> --%> > > > > <%! > > // this is a local "helper" bean for processing > the > > HTML form > > static public class localBean > > { > > private String value; > > public String getValue() { return > value;} > > public void setValue(String s) { value = s; } > > } > > %> > > > > <jsp:useBean id="localBean" scope="page" > > class="localBean" > > > Where is the bean class file? Is it in > > $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/yourApp/WEB-INF/classes ? > > Is the bean in a package? If so, it needs to be in a > corresponding directory structure under classes. Is > you bean in fact named localBean.[java|class] ? > Convention says Java classes should be named > LocalBean.java. > > {{SNIP}} > > ===== > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ > If you cannot in the long run tell everyone what you > have been doing, > your doing was worthless. -- Edwim Schrodinger > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>