Importing beans to a jsp

Question

i am trying to get my jsp to find two compiled beans you could let me know if im missing something obvious I would be very grateful. My Application is set out in jakarta-tomcat-3.3 as:
webapp/myJSPs/Hour16ex/WEB-INF/classes/com/myBeans
In Hour16ex I have file radomPayroll.jsp which is supposed to call my to bean classes
In myBeans are the bean classes Employee.class and RandomPeopleGenerator.class
These are the lines in radomPayroll.jsp that is supposed to import the two bean files
<jsp:useBean id="employee" class="com.myBeans.Employee" />
<jsp:useBean id="randomNames" class="com.myBeans.RandomPeopleGenerator" />
<%@ page import=" com.myBeans.*"%>
and yet it cant find them.
In autoexec.bat I have entered these lines
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\servlet.jar
set CATALINA_HOME=C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.3
set JAVA_HOME=C:\JDK1.3.1_01
I have also added jdk1.3.1_01 to the path in autoexec.bat
Is there any other configuring necessary in order for my radomPayroll.jsp to find the bean file. Someone mentioned that I need to enter some lines into the server.xml file. Is this true?
I am thinking that Hour16ex will be the root of my application and when searching for beans it will automatically look in WEB-INF/classes to find the packages without any extra configuration required.
Thankyou

Answer 1

Hi
A quick suggestion: Change your application Directory structure to the following:
You have: webapp/myJSPs/Hour16ex/WEB-INF/classes/com/myBeans
Change it to somthing like:
webapp/<APP-NAME>/WEB-INF/classes/com/myBeans
|
webapps
|------<YOUR-APP-NAME-DIR>
          |
          |
          <JSP_FILES_SUBDIR>
          |
          |
          WEB-INF------
               |
               |
               classes/com/myBeans
This should get it to work.
Keep us posted on your progress.
Good Luck!
Eshwar Rao
Developer Technical Support
Sun microsystems
http://www.sun.com/developers/support