JSP compiler error (WL 4.5.1, RH Linux 6.1, JDK 1.1.8)

Question

I am new to WebLogic, and have been trying to get it setup to serve JSP
files. I followed the instructions in the documentation. However, when
I try to access a JSP, I get the following errors. It looks like my
java compiler doesn't like the syntax WebLogic uses to call the
compiler. From the documentation, I have found that syntax is:
     java weblogic.jspc -d /working/directory /path/to/jsp/file
I have tried this on the command line with the correct paths to my
files, only to result in a series of class not found errors (e.g.,
antlr.CharScanner, antlr.Tokenizer,
com.sun.java.util.collections.ArrayList, etc.). I keep downloading more
packages but everytime I try again, I need to download yet another
class. I'm at the point where I cannot find the class it currently
needs (antlr.Tokenizer).
I have these questions:
1. Should it really be this difficult & complicated to compile jsps?
2. Are these problems happening because I'm running the WL server on
Linux?
3. Why are the errors so totally different between running a JSP on the
web and running one on the command line?
4. What should I do?
The log below contains the error messages when attempting to compile
from the web browser:
Tue Feb 15 13:45:48 EST 2000:<I> <ServletContext-Servlets>
weblogic.servlet.JSPServlet: Generated java file:
/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles/jsp_servlet/_jax/_test.java
Tue Feb 15 13:45:49 EST 2000:<E> <ServletContext-Servlets>
weblogic.servlet.JSPServlet: Compilation of
/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles/jsp_servlet/_jax/_test.java
failed: -d: illegal argument
Usage: java [-options] class
where options include:
-help print out this message
-version print out the build version
-fullversion print out the full version information
-v -verbose turn on verbose mode
-debug enable remote JAVA debugging
-noasyncgc don't allow asynchronous garbage collection
-verbosegc print a message when garbage collection occurs
-noclassgc disable class garbage collection
-cs -checksource check if source is newer when loading classes
-ss<number> set the maximum native stack size for any thread
-oss<number> set the maximum Java stack size for any thread
-ms<number> set the initial Java heap size
-mx<number> set the maximum Java heap size
-D<name>=<value> set a system property
-classpath <directories separated by colons>
list directories in which to look for classes
-prof[:<file>] output profiling data to ./java.prof or ./<file>
-verify verify all classes when read in
-verifyremote verify classes read in over the network [default]
-noverify do not verify any class
-nojit disable JIT compiler
DEFAULTS:
-ss: 256K, -oss: 400K, -ms: 1M, -mx: 32M
Tue Feb 15 13:45:49 EST 2000:<E> <ServletContext-Servlets>
java.io.IOException: Compiler failed
executable.exec([Ljava.lang.String;[/usr/local/jdk118/bin/java,
-classpath,
/usr/local/jdk118/lib/classes.zip:/usr/local/weblogic/classes/boot:/usr/local/weblogic/classes:/usr/local/weblogic/license:/usr/local/weblogic/lib/weblogicaux.jar:/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/serverclasses:/weblogic/myserver/servletclasses:/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles,
-d, /usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles,
/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles/jsp_servlet/_jax/_test.java])
<and so on>
If it helps, I will post the error messages from the command line, which
are all, basically, class not found exceptions; I do not wish to make
this an unnecessarily long email, though.
Thank you for your help!
Jacqui

Answer 1

Run the command like this:
java -classpath /opt/weblogic/classes:/opt/weblogic/lib/weblogicaux.jar:/usr/java/lib/classes.zip weblogic.jspc -d /working/directory /path/to/jsp/file
Hope this helps,
Robert
Jacqui Maher wrote:
I am new to WebLogic, and have been trying to get it setup to serve JSP
files. I followed the instructions in the documentation. However, when
I try to access a JSP, I get the following errors. It looks like my
java compiler doesn't like the syntax WebLogic uses to call the
compiler. From the documentation, I have found that syntax is:
java weblogic.jspc -d /working/directory /path/to/jsp/file
I have tried this on the command line with the correct paths to my
files, only to result in a series of class not found errors (e.g.,
antlr.CharScanner, antlr.Tokenizer,
com.sun.java.util.collections.ArrayList, etc.). I keep downloading more
packages but everytime I try again, I need to download yet another
class. I'm at the point where I cannot find the class it currently
needs (antlr.Tokenizer).
I have these questions:
1. Should it really be this difficult & complicated to compile jsps?
2. Are these problems happening because I'm running the WL server on
Linux?
3. Why are the errors so totally different between running a JSP on the
web and running one on the command line?
4. What should I do?
The log below contains the error messages when attempting to compile
from the web browser:
Tue Feb 15 13:45:48 EST 2000:<I> <ServletContext-Servlets>
weblogic.servlet.JSPServlet: Generated java file:
/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles/jsp_servlet/_jax/_test.java
Tue Feb 15 13:45:49 EST 2000:<E> <ServletContext-Servlets>
weblogic.servlet.JSPServlet: Compilation of
/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles/jsp_servlet/_jax/_test.java
failed: -d: illegal argument
Usage: java [-options] class
where options include:
-help print out this message
-version print out the build version
-fullversion print out the full version information
-v -verbose turn on verbose mode
-debug enable remote JAVA debugging
-noasyncgc don't allow asynchronous garbage collection
-verbosegc print a message when garbage collection occurs
-noclassgc disable class garbage collection
-cs -checksource check if source is newer when loading classes
-ss<number> set the maximum native stack size for any thread
-oss<number> set the maximum Java stack size for any thread
-ms<number> set the initial Java heap size
-mx<number> set the maximum Java heap size
-D<name>=<value> set a system property
-classpath <directories separated by colons>
list directories in which to look for classes
-prof[:<file>] output profiling data to ./java.prof or ./<file>
-verify verify all classes when read in
-verifyremote verify classes read in over the network [default]
-noverify do not verify any class
-nojit disable JIT compiler
DEFAULTS:
-ss: 256K, -oss: 400K, -ms: 1M, -mx: 32M
Tue Feb 15 13:45:49 EST 2000:<E> <ServletContext-Servlets>
java.io.IOException: Compiler failed
executable.exec([Ljava.lang.String;[/usr/local/jdk118/bin/java,
-classpath,
/usr/local/jdk118/lib/classes.zip:/usr/local/weblogic/classes/boot:/usr/local/weblogic/classes:/usr/local/weblogic/license:/usr/local/weblogic/lib/weblogicaux.jar:/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/serverclasses:/weblogic/myserver/servletclasses:/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles,
-d, /usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles,
/usr/local/weblogic/myserver/classfiles/jsp_servlet/_jax/_test.java])
<and so on>
If it helps, I will post the error messages from the command line, which
are all, basically, class not found exceptions; I do not wish to make
this an unnecessarily long email, though.
Thank you for your help!
Jacqui