Jsp:useBean and Tomcat
Hi!
I have installed Tomcat as localhost and succeed in running scriplets. But now I want to try using jsp:useBean
I have compiled a simple class, test1.class and placed it under webapps/root together with the jsp-file.
When I use �
<jsp:useBean id="test1" scope="page" class="test1"/>
to start test1, Tomcat tries to find it in org.apache.jsp
Then I tried to add - package myFolder; - in test1 but it won�t work.
So! These are my questions.
Is it possible for Tomcat to find a class placed in the webapps/root folder?
Where can I find org/apache/jsp, is it in a .jar-file somewhere? I can�t fint it when I use - search files/folders.
Where should I place test1.class and how do I write the useBean-tag to make it work?
Thanks for any answer
Regards Peter
your beans should always be under /web-inf/classes
so if you want to put it in the root directory it should look like this
tomcat-path/webapps/root/web-inf/classes
in your jsp file, don't forget to import the bean i.e
<%@ page import="package_name.mybeans.*" %>
then use the jsb:useBean the way you did
<jsp:useBean id="test1" class="test1" scope="page" />
it should then work fine,
regards
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