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Dan On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Tena Sakai <tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote: > 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 >
