Jason,
You have to have JAVA_HOME environment variable defined so that jasper is
able to find the compiler in order to compile the jsp.
~larry
i.e.
inside your tomcat.sh file have the following entries...
TOMCAT_HOME=/tmp/jakarta-tomcat # or wherever..;-)
JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.2.2 #
Your problem is because the tools.jar is not in the classpath. This
file is located in the lib subdirectory of your jdk home. One way of
letting Tomcat know where the file is would be to put it in your
classpath but what you can also do is set the JAVA_HOME variable to
point to the jdk
