Error on deploying war to Tomcat

Question

Hi,
I am a new bie trying to develop a Web application.
I have deployed a war to tomcat 5.0.25, when I try to access the ContextRoot (there is a default.jsp file in the war, that should be invoked on eneterinh the COntextRoot in the browser address bar) it gives me an error saying:
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
     org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:519)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:274)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
root cause
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/local/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/FTPSchedulerWeb/org/apache/jsp/default_jsp.java
     java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
     java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
     java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:70)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:188)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:461)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:442)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:430)
     org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:511)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:274)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)I developed the application using eclipse3.1 and created a WAR file using the same. Now I do not know if you can generate a WAR file using eclipse and deploy it on Tomcat5.0.25.
Also, should I include the JDK 1.4 lib/jar files in the war file? Is that causing this error?
Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
Thank you for your suggestion. your point about the folders could be right.
Because for some reason, the folders org, org/apache, org/apache/grp under:
/usr/local/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/FTPSchedulerWeb/
were not getting created. And so we manually created them and attached them to the necessary group, to get proper file permissions.
But my doubt still remains as to why those folders were not created. Well there is one point I want to ask here, in teh Tomcat server web.xml file, the following code is not present:
<webapp>
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<servlet>
        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.jspx</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
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</webapp>Could that be a possible reason as to why the server is unable to create those folders? Well, I do not know the actual reason. Please let me know what possibly could be the reason for this problem.
Thanks a lot for your help!!