Hi Anja, I had the same problem when I first start working with JSP.
The only working way I know is restart tomcat, I normally already have all .java (my beans) copiled with javac first. Li -----Original Message----- From: Anja Falkner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 14:50 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to force Tomcat to compile? Hello Reynir, my JSPs use some Java-Classes. This Java-Classes are positioned in WEB-INF/classes. Normally Tomcat compiles this classes by his own. But if I do some changes in *.java, Tomcat doesn't check, that *.java has changed and doesn't recompile. That's the problem. To found a solution, I have compiled the changed *.java with javac. The compilation runs without problems. Then, when I run my application I get a ClassDefNotFoundError. Tomcat don't want my self-compiled *.class Anja -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>