> From: Steve R Burrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Subject: Re: problem starting Tomcat
> 
> well boris what with this java exception in the server error 
> msg. : "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException" you must not have 
> placed/put the 2 jar files, servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar 
> into your system's classpath yet.

Nor should he do so.  Tomcat uses its own classloaders, not the JVM
system class loader, to find and initialize all classes other than those
in bootstrap.jar.  If you don't know how Tomcat class loading works,
please review the doc:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html

 - Chuck


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