From owner-freebsd-java Wed Apr 3 23: 8:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from hobbits.brel.com (hobbits.brel.com [203.127.231.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BF637B41A for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:08:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by hobbits.brel.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B35063309; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:08:07 +0800 (SGT) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:08:07 +0800 From: Calvin NG To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Tomcat4 and catalina:jsp_classpath Message-ID: <20020404150807.A86509@brel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings, I have just finished installing jakarta-tomcat4 from the ports collection. Testing the servlets looks okay, however, when running the JSP examples, I get a very nicely formatted Tomcat4 error page reporting "Internal Server Error" due to exception: javax.servlet.ServletException: sun/tools/javac/Main root cause: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/tools/javac/Main It is quite apparent that Tomcat is not able to find tools.jar that is in $JAVA_HOME/lib/ (I checked, the tools.jar is still there). Looking carefully at Tomcat4's doc, specifically Class Loader How-To, it mentions that Catalina will ignore the system setting, CLASSPATH, but will load its classes in a very specific way. (I will not repeat it here, those interested should read http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html Now it seems that my Tomcat4 installation is not following this to the letter, and has failed to load $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar Maybe someone can point out what I am doing wrong. I can solve this problem by copying $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar into $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/tools.jar but I would like to know if anyone else has encounter this problem and how they resolve it. NOTE: you can take a peek at catalina:jsp_classpath at http://localhost:8180/examples/servlet/SnoopServlet assuming default installation with examples mine doesn't contain bootstrap.jar or tools.jar Regards, /calvin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message