Hi

I am new to JSP. Could anyone plz tell as to how we include a jar file in the jsp. All I know is that we put it in WEB-INF/lib folder. But it does not fix my problem. If I write : <%@ page import = "WEB-INF/lib/*.jar" %> I get the following error in TOMCAT:
HTTP Status 500 -

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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

Generated servlet error:
E:\Tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\RssHelper\org\ap ache\jsp\displaynews_jsp.java:10: '.' expected
import WEB-INF/lib/*.jar;
         ^


Generated servlet error:
E:\Tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\RssHelper\org\ap ache\jsp\displaynews_jsp.java:10: unclosed comment
import WEB-INF/lib/*.jar;
                 ^


Generated servlet error:
E:\Tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\RssHelper\org\ap ache\jsp\displaynews_jsp.java:128: <identifier> expected
^
3 errors


If I remove the import tag from the jsp, but have the jar in the lib folder, even then i get the following error:

HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

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

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: org/apache/xerces/framework/XMLParser
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandle PageException(PageContextImpl.java:825)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePa geException(PageContextImpl.java:758)
    org.apache.jsp.displaynews_jsp._jspService(display news_jsp.java:119)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(Http JspBase.java:94)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.servic e(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFil e(JspServlet.java:292)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:236)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
    web.NewsSelect.doPost(NewsSelect.java:35)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:709)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)


root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xerces/framework/XMLParser
    org.apache.jsp.displaynews_jsp.ParseXML(displaynew s_jsp.java:17)
    org.apache.jsp.displaynews_jsp._jspService(display news_jsp.java:103)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(Http JspBase.java:94)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.servic e(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFil e(JspServlet.java:292)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:236)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
    web.NewsSelect.doPost(NewsSelect.java:35)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:709)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 logs.
Actually, I want to include the xerces.jar file from apache in the jsp.

Thnx in advance

I am getting the same error (500) when I try to run a jsp that fetches server time. I am using java.util.Date package. It also says it cannot find out.write() even when I have not used it!

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