I'm just starting to learn how to use JSP with the book "Beginning JSP Web Development". In Chapter 4, the book introduces JavaBeans, which I am led to believe are merely regular Java programs that are accessible to the JSP pages. I wrote a simple Java program that takes an ID, looks it up in a file, and returns a line from the file if the ID is found.

I then made 2 JSP pages: one allows the user to enter an ID, and when the submit button is clicked, another JSP page is loaded which requests the line from the file.

My JSP files are in the directory /webapps/grades.
My class file is in the directory /webapps/grades/web-inf/classes/com/grades.

When I load the JSP page, it seems to load fine, but when I click submit, I get a package com.grades not found error. Have I done something wrong here?

can u post the error msg n code as well, from the error u get it same like ur servlet container cant find the class file....
hth

regrad
yuji

Here's the full message, the bottom portion is just the Java stack trace.


Type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

An error occurred at line: -1 in the jsp file: null

Generated servlet error:
    [javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting.
    [javac] Compiling 1 source file
    [javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting.
    [javac] C:\Tomcat_4_1\work\Standalone\localhost\grades\res ults_jsp.java:51: package com.grades does not exist
    [javac] com.grades.Grades stud = new com.grades.Grades();
    [javac] ^
    [javac] C:\Tomcat_4_1\work\Standalone\localhost\grades\res ults_jsp.java:51: package com.grades does not exist
    [javac] com.grades.Grades stud = new com.grades.Grades();
    [javac] ^
    [javac] 2 errors



        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jav acError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:130)
        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacEr ror(ErrorDispatcher.java:293)
        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass( Compiler.java:353)
        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compil er.java:370)
        at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(Js pCompilationContext.java:473)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.servic e(JspServletWrapper.java:190)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFil e(JspServlet.java:295)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:241)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:853)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.in ternalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.do Filter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invo ke(StandardWrapperValve.java:256)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$Standard PipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.j ava:643)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(S tandardPipeline.java:480)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Cont ainerBase.java:995)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invo ke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$Standard PipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.j ava:643)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(S tandardPipeline.java:480)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Cont ainerBase.java:995)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(St andardContext.java:2415)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:180)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$Standard PipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.j ava:643)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.in voke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:171)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$Standard PipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.j ava:641)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke (ErrorReportValve.java:172)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$Standard PipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.j ava:641)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(S tandardPipeline.java:480)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Cont ainerBase.java:995)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invok e(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$Standard PipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.j ava:643)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(S tandardPipeline.java:480)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Cont ainerBase.java:995)
        at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(Co yoteAdapter.java:223)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(H ttp11Processor.java:594)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11Conn ectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.jav a:392)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(P oolTcpEndpoint.java:565)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlR unnable.run(ThreadPool.java:619)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

I might be stating the obvious, but is your WEB-INF directory called WEB-INF, or web-inf? Not sure about Tomcat to be honest, but many web containers are case sensitive. WEB-INF should be all caps.

 - Peter

Actually, it's called Web-inf because of the DOS naming conventions. I tried forcing it to be called WEB-INF, but it did not seem so want to let me do that.

It's a while ago, but I seem to remember that this turned out just to be a representation thing -- when I started out playing with Orion on Win98 a couple of years ago, it could tell the difference between WEB-INF and Web-inf even though they looked the same in Explorer. Really annoying. My current Win2K box and WinME laptop, on the other hand, are both happy showing WEB-INF as WEB-INF.

 - Peter

Thanks, it works now. I'm using a different computer, and it shows file names the way I type them, and it now saves WEB-INF as that.

pdenhaan, you rule! I've been staring at this same problem on my test server for two days now. When I copied the context from my live server to my test server, WEB-INF turned into web-inf, and I didn't even notice it, and I've been using tomcat on a daily basis for three years now! I thought for sure it must be a bug in tomcat. Then I saw this posting, and thought you were nuts for even suggesting that might be the problem, but sure enough...

nightsurfer, thanks for posting, and pdenhaan, thanks for "stating the obvious". ;)

--John

I also had the same problem.
I changed the properties of file Web-inf to be share as WEB-INF.
This fixed it for me.