Phil: Thanks for responding. I got it working. In short, the simplest advice I can give anyone struggling with this is to simply use tomcat_4.0.4 instead of 4.0.3 Found that out after a process of painful elimination; by changing IBM to Sun and so on..
Everything worked magically after that.. I guess JNDI support must be better.. :) Thanks.. --- Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Glow Nair wrote: > > >-------------------------------------------------- > >NamingException : Cannot create resource instance > >-------------------------------------------------- > >While trying to run the SendMail example that > >came bundled with Tomcat4, I get the error > >NamingException : Cannot create resource instance > > > >I've read and re-read the Tomcat How-To's. And > >went through the JNDI tutorials as well.. (at leat > >tried to.. till the installation of the LDAP > >server :) ) > > > >Am I missing something in CLASSPATH? or is my > >Tomcat installation corrupted in some way ? Can > >someone help me with this or give me a hint or URL? > > > >Thanks.. I've attached details below. ANY HELP > >WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. > > > >Glow > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >------------------------- > >1. I use IBM's JDK IBMJava2-SDK-1.3-13.0.i386.rpm > > > >2. I downloaded mail.jar and copied it to > >/var/tomcat4/common/lib. > > > Did you also copy activation.jar to common/lib? > > > > > > >3. I could successfully compile SendMailServelet > using > > /opt/IBMJava2-13/bin/javac -verbose > > -classpath .:/var/tomcat4/common/lib/mail.jar: > > /var/tomcat4/common/lib/servlet.jar > > SendMailServlet.java > > > >4. I fixed the typo in sendmail.jsp ie changed > > <form ... action="../../SendMailServlet">" TO > > <form ... > action="../../servlet/SendMailServlet"> > > > >5. I have qmail running on localhost. I verified > > that to be working by sending mail using > > a standalone example that does NOT use > > Tomcat's JNDI implementation.. it worked > > fine by using simple classses. > > > >6. I installed tomcat using the following RPMs > > rpm -ivh regexp-1.2-1.noarch.rpm > > rpm -ivh servletapi4-4.0.3-1.noarch.rpm > > rpm -ivh xerces-j-1.4.4-2.noarch.rpm > > rpm -ivh tomcat4-4.0.3-1.noarch.rpm > > rpm -ivh tomcat4-webapps-4.0.3-1.noarch.rpm > > > >7. I connected tomcat to Apache using > > rpm -ivh mod_webapp-1.0-1.i386.rpm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
