> Is there a way to use .class files > found under WEB-INF/classes that are not part of a > package?
Not as far as I can tell. JDK 1.4 started enforcing a part of the JLS that says you can't import a class in the default package (no package statement) into a class that is in a named package. The behavior of Tomcat 4.1 is consistent with that. But since all production code should be in a package anyway, this isn't really a problem. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management