I too only develop on XP, but one point I wanted to mention... I generally just put j2ee.jar in my classpath for build purposes. That gives you the equivalent of servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar, plus just about anything else you might need. There could concievably be version mismatch issues, but it has never come up for me.
Not a big thing, but could make your life easier. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Tue, December 21, 2004 9:50 am, Bill Siggelkow said: > Eric, > > It sounds like you are definitely reaching frustration level. I do not > have experience on Mac OS X but I can tell you my WinXP experience. > First, I don't use the Sysdeo plug-in; I just start and stop tomcat > manually -- I *do* utilize Eclipse's Ant integration to run my builds; > this works fine. As far as development, when developing I add the > jsp-api.jar and servlet-api.jar to my project's build path; I also > reference these jars in my compile path in my Ant script; however, I do > not include these jars in my WEB-INF/classes as they are part of > Tomcat's system classpath. > > As far as my Ant build; I build a War file with the 'dist' target; and > then deploy by extracting the WAR into Tomcat's webapps directory. There > are other techniques; one popular approach is to point your Tomcat to > your application's working development (web) directory; this will let > you develop on-the-fly without needing to restart Tomcat. > > I suggest you get a simple application working the way you want. Then > you can start on your custom tag app. > > -Bill Siggelkow > > Eric D. Nielsen wrote: >> Long post follows... I don't know if its an Eclipse, Tomcat or >> Struts problem... >> >> I've been trying to get started on Java Web Development using Eclipse, >> Tomcat, and Struts for the past several weeks. Sometime last week I >> got both simple JSP's (no custom logic) and the same JSP's using Tiles >> working. I've been trying to work on my first custom tag. I'm >> developing on a Mac OS X 10.3 platform. >> >> I had to fiddle a lot for the application wide class path and the >> project-specific class path to get the jsp-api.jar reachable. Once I >> got that fixed the base classes were resolve-able and my classes >> compiled. However, the default build from Eclipse, using the Tomcat >> project template from the Sysdeo plugin, did not appear to put class >> files into the correct location for Tomcat to use them (ie not in >> WEB-INF/classes/<package>/). >> >> I looked at the Eclipse In Action book published by Manning to for how >> to invoke Ant from inside Eclipse and use the provided build.xml file >> included in the sample Struts application. >> >> I had to add classpaths to the build.xml to locate servlet-api.jar and >> jsp-api.jar. Once that was done Ant could compile the files and the >> directory structure looked correct. I had a typo in the package for my >> tag handler in the .tld. After I fixed that I started getting: >> javax.servlet.ServletExceptions with the root cause as >> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/Servlet >> >> At which point I started working backward, removing custom components >> from my JSP's, until it was only the Tiles and static template content, >> but I got the same errors. I had been restarting Tomcat several times >> throughout this process from the Sysdeo plugin for Eclipse and didn't >> see anything suspicious in the log. >> >> I now tried the root web-application (default Tomcat install) and >> received: >> javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance >> org.apache.catalina.values.ErrorReportValue.invoke(ErrorReportValue.java >> : 105) >> >> At this point I tried stopping and restarting Tomcat from the >> command-line instead of from within Eclipse. The root application >> started working. >> >> My development application however now shows 1 of 2 behaviors: >> 1) Blank page, no content in view source: direct request for a simple >> complete jsp (only template text, valid HTML) or for the basic template >> with an <p>Hi</p> as the body. These pages only use the /tags/tiles >> taglib. >> >> 2) >> org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Failed to load or instantiate >> TagExtraInfo class: org.apache.struts.taglib.logic.IterateTei >> >> org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHand >> ler.java:50) >> >> on any page that includes the /tags/struts-logic taglib. >> >> I'm afraid I've corrupted by install of Tomcat or Struts somehow. I >> haven't done that much actual development, so re-installing everything >> is doable, but the amount of cross application configuration is >> daunting even with the help on-line tutorials and both the Eclipse in >> Action and Struts in Action books. None of the tutorials indicated >> either of the problems with adding the jsp-api.jar to the eclipse >> and/or Ant classpaths nor the configuration required for .classes to >> end up in /WEB-INF/class. Does anyone know if Mac OS X has serious >> issues with the "normal" configurations that would be causing those >> problems? Does anyone know what I did that cased the ServletExceptions >> near the end of my story or why it can't find struts-logic anymore >> while it can still find tiles? Any other advice? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Eric > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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