Hi, I am new to tomcat and jsp. I appologize in advance my lack of knowledge, but I would appreciate some poninters.
I am running tomcat 6.0.14 on redhat linux. After reading a few pages of documentation, I tried: http://localhost:8080/sample It rendered what's in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/sample/index.html, which included 2 hyperlinks: "JSP page" and "servlet". Both links worked fine. Then I found a file $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/sample/WEB-INF/classes/mypackage/Hello.class. I removed this class file and hit the same url as before (http://localhost:8080/sample), and each of the "JSP page" and "servlet", expecting the error from tomcat. To my amazement, they both worked. Question number 1: Where is the executable class file? Then I went on to modify hello.jsp in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/sample directory. I added extra string "Hello!" to what used to be: <%= new String("Hello!") %> Tomcat gave me what I expected: double Hello's. I thought it might have generated a class file. But there is no class file anywhere under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/sample directory? Question number 2: Why does this work? Thank you in advance. Regards, Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu
