"Steven D. Meacham" wrote:
> It looks to me like you already have in the message all of the info
> available. Error 500 means "Internal Servlet Error". It is the HTTP code
> that indicates that something unexpected happened when trying to
> generate/send a response to the client.
>
> The rest of it is a stack trace which takes you to the exact point of
> failure in the servlet. In this case, you probably have a Servlet named
> Example0402 and you're calling the method newInstance() where the error
> occurs. I'm not sure what the IllegalAccessException that occurred means in
> your case without the source for that method.
>
Two common causes of an IllegalAccessException when you call
Class.newInstance():
* The class is not declared public.
* The class has no public no-arguments constructor.
In general, as Steven points out, stack traces are there to tell you exactly
where the problem occurred. If you run without a JIT compiler enabled, you will
even find out the line numbers in your source code.
> Best of luck,
> Steven
Craig McClanahan
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