BoyePeter: > I have installed Tomcat version 6.
Although I doubt it's of any importance wrt your problem, for the future: Tomcat's version numbers consist of three numbers separated by dots - like 6.0.18. > I copied the servlet-api.jar to the JDK directory because, according to Java > for Dummies, it is needed to compile my servlets. If the book really says so, I'd think that now was a good time to throw it away. > If it is not there, > Eclipse reports errors when trying to import javax.servlet.* and when I try > to use "extends HttpServlet". If you're already using Eclipse, why don't you use it's Web Tools Platform which takes care of setting the classpath when building, of deploying etc. when developing webapps? > Perhaps I should have mentioned that I am trying to learn how to program in > Java and I am trying to set up the test environment for this. If you're starting to program in Java, programming servlets is not the starting point to the most easy route IMO. > I am not > trying to set up a Web Server for the internet. The books that I read and > the Tomcat documentation said to change the invoker stuff. Then you're most likely reading the wrong books. But I'd be very interested to know where the official Tomcat documentation says that one should enable the Invoker servlet. > I had a look at the Tomcat logs but, being the novice that I am, they didn't > mean anything to me. You could post the relevant snippet (the timestamps should give a hint what might be relevant) here. Even if it means nothing to you, it might mean a lot to someone trying to help you. > Not sure how to turn off IE's friendly messages nor what would be the result > if I did so. I'm no Windows user myself, so I don't know exactly. But IIRC it's buried somewhere in the advanced internet options. Without this option disabled, IE thinks it knows best what to show the user (and especially: what not) when an error occurs and suppresses the error message sent by the server that might actually contain information about what went wrong. OTOH it might not - but with IE's "friendly" error messages you'll never know. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
