Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance

2005-10-11 Thread Glen Mazza
Justin Jaynes wrote: I would HIGHLY recommend using SuSE Linux 10 which can be purchased or download from Novell directly at suse.com. Also, see the openSuSE project (essentially the open source community effort half of the SuSE/novell team). I used to run RedHat but was disappointed in the

Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance

2005-10-11 Thread John Geiger
Not at all, Justin. Thank you, thank you! Also, thank you, Mark Eggers. As I am so new to this, I run the risk of veering off-topic, which I realize is inappropriate. That said, I will get my newbie noggin back into the woodshed so that I may be true to this list. Best wishes, John G. on

Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance

2005-10-11 Thread Justin Jaynes
John, If you need help with setting up the environment I described (and BOY could I have used help my first time--mostly I tutored myself and failed and failed before succeeding) you can ask me and I will know at least where to point you for relevant information. I assume you have done your own

Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance

2005-10-10 Thread Glen Mazza
John Geiger escribió: Hello: This is a little intimidating, but I am eager. I hope I am in the right place. I am a DHTML developer‹intermediate level. I¹ve been exposed to JSP on an iPlanet server, Sun OS 5.8 (but it is my client¹s production server, and I¹m reluctant to mess around there!) I

Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance

2005-10-10 Thread John Geiger
I am avoiding the real issue--OK, I am ready to face it: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: In lt;drivergt;, invalid driver class name: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver This is the error I get running an exercise from the Apress book. I can

Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance

2005-10-10 Thread Mark Eggers
I am not familiar with the book. If they are recommending using Tomcat's connection pools and JNDI, then you will need to add the jar file that contains the MySQL driver to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. If you are connecting to the database directly from your web application then you probably need

Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance

2005-10-10 Thread Justin Jaynes
I would HIGHLY recommend using SuSE Linux 10 which can be purchased or download from Novell directly at suse.com. Also, see the openSuSE project (essentially the open source community effort half of the SuSE/novell team). I used to run RedHat but was disappointed in the drop to Fedora. I tried