As a first approach, i would modify tomcat.sh (tomcat.bat i think if
youre in windoze) to explicitly add c:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar to the
classpath that tomcat uses. If that still fails, then the problem must
be with your paths, or a corrupt tools.jar, though i doubt the latter
would be the cause.
-Pete
>PLEASE can someone help. I'm running the JDK1.3 and Tomcat 3.2.3. All the
>examples compile but, when I try to call up a simple JSP page, I get an error
>that it can't find sun.tools.javac.Main. I have C:\JDK1.3\LIB\TOOLS.JAR in
>BOTH the classpath and in the path (for Win 98) set in the autoexec.bat. I
>hunted down the 'offending' call and found this in SunJavaCompiler.java:
>
>import sun.tools.javac.Main;
>
>/**
> * The default compiler. This is the javac present in JDK 1.1.x and
> * JDK 1.2.
> *
> * At some point we need to make sure there is a class like this for
> * JDK 1.3, and other javac-like animals that people want to use.
> *
> * @author Anil K. Vijendran
>
>Is this the problem? Surely it's in tools.jar? So why can't Tomcat find it?
>
>I'm STUCK!! Someone out there help, please.
>
>Madeleine Wright
>
