Because you have put your bean in "com.jguru", you need to duplicate this under WEB-INF/classes. Your bean should then reside as "WEB-INF/classes/com/jguru/FormBean.class".
Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John and Alicia Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: Tomcat 4.0.3-HTTP Status 500-Internal Server Error Hi, I've just started to use Tomcat 4.0.3. All of the applications in the \webapps\examples file that came with Tomcat run correctly. I added a new folder, \webapps\examples\jsp\forms, that contains form.jsp. This file sends/receives data from a javabean that I put in the \webapps\examples\WEB_INF\classes\forms folder. The bean is named FormBean.java. When I try to run the jps page from my browser, I get the following error message: Tomcat 4.0.3-HTTP Status 500-Internal Server Error. I copies part of the long root cause output below. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.jguru.FormBean at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1394) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1243) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.BeanRepository.getBeanType(BeanRepository.java:18 1) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.GetPropertyGenerator.generate(GetPropertyGenerato r.java:102) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener$GeneratorWrapper.generate(J spParseEventListener.java:834) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.generateAll(JspParseEventLi stener.java:241) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.endPageProcessing(JspParseE ventListener.java:197) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:215) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:552) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspSe rvlet.java:177) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja va:189) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:382) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:474) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) This appears to be a classpath problem, but I can't identify what is wrong with my configuration, if anything. Do you have suggestions on how to correct this problem? Thanks, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>