Hi,
I just installed Windows version of Tomcat 5.x and get the following error while try to run tag library examples.. Others work fine. HTTP Status 500 - _____ type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class org.apache.jsp.jsp2.simpletag.hello_jsp org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(Authenticator Base.java:509) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java :164) org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:211) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:80 5) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processC onnection(Http11Protocol.java:696) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:60 5) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool .java:677) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) root cause java.lang.VerifyError: (class: org/apache/jsp/jsp2/simpletag/hello_jsp, method: _jspx_meth_mytag_helloWorld_0 signature: (Ljavax/servlet/jsp/PageContext;)Z) Incompatible argument to function java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method) java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1590) java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1762) java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:276) java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:259) org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(Authenticator Base.java:509) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java :164) org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:211) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:80 5) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processC onnection(Http11Protocol.java:696) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:60 5) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool .java:677) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.