I originally posted this question back in mid-December, but without any responses. In the hopes that someone will have a hit or a solution, I'm reposting the question again.
I'm having a problem when I try to use my pre-compiled JSP files: I receive a NoClassDefFoundError exception. Here's what I'm doing ... I have pre-compiled my JSP classes using the JspC plugin from ant. My files compile without complaint. However, when I try to access the files through tomcat, I receive some NoClassDefFoundError exceptions. But these exceptions only occur when I'm accessing JSPs in the subdirectories off of the web root. Here's my application's background. I have two files: <WEBROOT>/index.jsp <WEBROOT>/dir/index.jsp The contents of the two files are just simple HTML. I precompiled the JSP using the JspC ant target, then compiled using javac. Finally, I created a context pointing the work directory to the location of my java and class files. When I tried to access the first file (http://localhost/context/index.jsp) everything went fine. However, when I tried to access the second file (http://localhost/context/dir/index.jsp), I received the NoClassDefFoundError. The log file looks like this: 2003-12-15 20:11:25 StandardWrapperValve[jsp]: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception javax.servlet.ServletException: org/apache/jsp/index_jsp (wrong name: org/apache/jsp/dir/index_jsp) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:249) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) [deleted ...] ----- Root Cause ----- java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jsp/index_jsp (wrong name: org/apache/jsp/dir/index_jsp) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:448) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader.loadClass(JasperLoader.java:215) [deleted] Now, according to my research on this mailing list, the most frequent reason for a NoClassDef error is capitalization. However, this isn't the case in my situation as the two package names are completely different: org/apache/jsp/index_jsp vs. org/apache/jsp/dir/index_jsp. I'm using Tomcat 4.1.29. Any suggestions on how to alleviate this situation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks JDG PS: I should also point out that I have tried the recommended way of precompiling my JSP by converting to servlets (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jasper-howto.html#Web%2 0Application%20Compilation). However, I have a problem with this method: it makes it that much harder to patch my application. With the non-servlet approach, I just simply deliver the modified JSP files. With the servlet approach, I need to deliver the classes, plus ensure that the web.xml is correct (add new entries, remove old ones, modify where needed), plus restart the context. -- Jay Glanville --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
