Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:04:32 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> To: Calvin NG <calvinng@brel.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tomcat4 and catalina:jsp_classpath Message-ID: <200204042204.AAA14942@smtp.hccnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020404150807.A86509@brel.com> References: <20020404150807.A86509@brel.com>
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Hi Calvin, Committed a changed port just a few minutes ago. Could you please confirm that it now works as you would like/expect it to ? Sincerely, Ernst On Thursday 04 April 2002 09:08, Calvin NG wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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