Urgent help needed by a TOMCAT/JSP beginner...

[xiaozhide7]

i have this problem ..

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: 2 in the jsp file: /esos/EsosLogin.jsp
Generated servlet error:
EsosUtil cannot be resolved


org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:84)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:328)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:397)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:288)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:267)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:255)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:556)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:293)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:291)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.9 logs.


i dunno how to solve it..

izzit due to the wrong path??

i put my .jsp files inside ROOT/esos
and the .class file put into

ROOT/WEB-INF/esos/utility

i m using tomcat 5.5.9 with j2sdk1.5 .. window xp pro..

thank you..

[dlmiles]

"xiaozhide7" wrote:
An error occurred at line: 2 in the jsp file: /esos/EsosLogin.jsp
Generated servlet error:
EsosUtil cannot be resolved

i put my .jsp files inside ROOT/esos
and the .class file put into

ROOT/WEB-INF/esos/utility

Lets say your Java class is "com.mydomain.EsosUtil" then you should have your class file as:

ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/com/mydomain/EsosUtil.class

if you have no package maybe:

ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/EsosUtil.class

will work for you. But I'd not recommend packageless classes.