Problems running Model2 webapp 2004-01-25 - By Curt R. Crandall
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I inherited a web application a couple of weeks ago and I'm having a
hard time trying to get it to run within Tomcat. Unfortunately, I do
not have any system documentation nor a buildfile for the system.
I'm attempting to get this application to run in two different
environments:
Mac OS X 10.3.2, Java 1.4.1, Tomcat 4.1.18
Windows 2000, Java 1.4.2, Tomcat 3.3.1a
The app I inherited does have a WEB-INF folder, but most of the
code/classes are scattered about. Let's call the web application
eReport. Under $CATALINA_HOME (or $TOMCAT_HOME), I set up the
following directory structure:
webapps/
eReport/
*.jsp
*.inc
*.js
WEB-INF/
web.xml
classes/
*.java
*.classes
lib/
*.jar
I eventually removed the *.java files from WEB-INF/classes as I've
experienced in other app servers that the Java files mess stuff up.
The almost all of the JSP pages try to import a class called
"SessionConnection". The class file for this is located in
WEB-INF/classes. When I go to view the JSP, I get 2 different errors
depending on the environment I'm using:
OS X-
/Library/Tomcat/work/Standalone/localhost/eSIMS/DeleteUser_jsp.java:8:
'.' expected
import SessionConnection;
^
Windows 2000- HTTP 404 file not found
The JSPs do compile in the Win2000 environment as I see the *.java
files in the work/ directory.
If I remove SessionConnection from the import list, then I receive an
HTML formatted error message from the error.jsp page that was included
(this page does not import SessionConnection).
It almost seems to me that there's a classpath issue here, but I was
certain that in Tomcat the contents of WEB-INF/classes were
automatically in the classpath.
I'm sure this is a stupid error, so please forgive me. I spend 90% of
my time creating mod_perl/Mason websites and 10% of the time using
Websphere with Ant build scripts provided by the web team.
If anyone knows what boneheaded mistake I'm making, I'd appreciate some
help.
Thank you,
Curt
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