On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:49:06AM -0600, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > Indicative of a broken Tomcat installation, which is pretty > typical with these 3rd-party repackaged versions. I strongly > suggest you throw away that junk and install a real Tomcat from > tomcat.apache.org; this mailing list is littered with problem > reports from attempted use of non-standard Tomcat > installations. If you insist on using the package from Debian, > you'll need to consult whatever Debian support mechanisms there > are.
Actually, yes, I would like to use the Debian package. I like the ease of installing/upgrading/removing packages with apt-get. While I was investigating the problem, I started to notice that it 'magically went away' somehow... so I did the following test: * Compile a class file and put it under WEB-INF/classes/ * restart tomcat * check the URL -> i get the NoClassDefFound error (for HttpServlet) that i described earlier. -> now I wait for about 10 to 20 minutes * I restart tomcat * I refresh the webpage in my browser... and now magically it works! What I conclude from this, is that the servlet-api.jar is at the right place, but somehow it takes a while for tomcat to notice this. My only problem is that, taking into account the above behavior, I have no clue where to look for the possible cause of this. If somebody could point me in the right direction, it would be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Bart -- "Share what you know. Learn what you don't." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org