I am working with the 'spellcheck' example in Chapter 2 (p 46 in my
book), and cannot get the JSP file to 'find' the SpellCheck class file.


I am using Tomcat 3.2.2 via IIS on an NT workstation. I am able to run
the earlier JSP-only examples from the book without errors, and to run
the JSP-to-Bean examples provided with the Tomcat installation. My java
file compiles without errors, and if I stick a main method in it I can
run it from the command line. The class is not part of a package. In
wordpro.jsp, I'm including these lines to get at the class:

<jsp:useBean id="spellcheck" scope="request" class="SpellCheck" />
<jsp:setProperty name="spellcheck" property="*" />

then later in the JSP I get at methods etc with syntax like this:
'out.println(spellcheck.check());'

When I run the example, the error I get is this:

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Location: /wench_test/jsp/46/wordpro.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for
JSPD:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\work\localhost_8080%2Fwench_test\_0002fjsp_0002f_00034_00036_0002fwordpro_0002ejspwordpro_jsp_0.java:60:
Class jsp._00034_00036.SpellCheck not found.
                SpellCheck spellcheck = null;
                ^
D:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\work\localhost_8080%2Fwench_test\_0002fjsp_0002f_00034_00036_0002fwordpro_0002ejspwordpro_jsp_0.java:63:
Class jsp._00034_00036.SpellCheck not found.
                    spellcheck= (SpellCheck)
                                 ^
D:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\work\localhost_8080%2Fwench_test\_0002fjsp_0002f_00034_00036_0002fwordpro_0002ejspwordpro_jsp_0.java:68:
Class jsp._00034_00036.SpellCheck not found.
                            spellcheck = (SpellCheck)
Beans.instantiate(this.getClass().getClassLoader(), "SpellCheck");
                                          ^
3 errors

	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:282)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.doLoadJSP(JspServlet.java:612)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader12.loadJSP(JasperLoader12.java:146)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:542)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspServlet.java:258)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:268)
	at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:429)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:500)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

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My classpath (displayed when I startup Tomcat) is:
'Using CLASSPATH:
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\classes;
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib\ant.jar;
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib\jasper.jar;
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib\jaxp.jar;
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib\parser.jar;
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib\servlet.jar;
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib\webserver.jar;
d:\orant816\jdbc\lib\classes12.zip;
d:\orant816\jdbc\lib\nls_charset12.zip;
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\webapps\;.;;
c:\jdk1.3.0_02\lib\tools.jar'

It also says 'Including all jars in d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib in your
CLASSPATH.'

My JSP & HTML file for this example is in
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\webapps\wench_test\jsp\46\

I have left my compiled SpellCheck.class there, and also put a copy of
it in 
d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes\ (because I read
that any class files in there would be automatically found by Tomcat --
s'not true).

I had also read that the class file HAD to be JAR'd and put in various
places (including d:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\lib\), which also didn't
work.

Any help would be appreciated. I've been messing with this for a few
days and reading anything I can find on the issue, and the basics (make
sure the class and/or jar file is in the classpath, etc) isn't helping
me.