Jasper exception? Class not found? But the resources are there!

Question

Hi, thanks for reading. I am building a simple web application. Just servlets and jsp working together to either retrieve or add or edit or delete data in a mysql database.
The problem i have is, some servlets compile and run fine and properly, while others return me the 'jasper error' (see below) and class not found error. The code in these servlets (those that work, and those that don't) are almost identical. I've checked them a couple of times, does not seems like there is any problem with the programming at all.
Please advise. Thanks for reading. If there is any files that you think i should upload, please let me know. Though it says class not found, the resources are there! What could be wrong? From the advice of someone on another thread, i've looked into the web.xml. And it looks like its right.
If anyone is willing to look into the matter for me. I'll upload all the files. (But that feels really rude to just impose on someone like that). Irregardless, thanks, really.
And what about the Jasper Exception? I've googled that already. But nothing that i found has been useful (even the official ones from apache).
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class Maintenance.Support.AddProdLog or a class it depends on
     org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
     org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
     org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
     org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
     org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
     org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
     org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
     java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
root cause
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Maintenance.Support.AddProdLog
     org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1352)
     org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1198)
     org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
     org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
     org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
     org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
     org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
     org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
     org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
     java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.17 logs.
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
An error occurred at line: 55 in the jsp file: /support_editUAT.jsp
Generated servlet error:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.netbeans\5.5.1\apache-tomcat-5.5.17_base\work\Catalina\localhost\MaintenanceSite\org\apache\jsp\support_005feditUAT_jsp.java:110: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable branchname
location: class org.apache.jsp.support_005feditUAT_jsp
      out.print( branchname);
                 ^
An error occurred at line: 91 in the jsp file: /support_editUAT.jsp
Generated servlet error:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.netbeans\5.5.1\apache-tomcat-5.5.17_base\work\Catalina\localhost\MaintenanceSite\org\apache\jsp\support_005feditUAT_jsp.java:148: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable branchname
location: class org.apache.jsp.support_005feditUAT_jsp
      out.print( branchname);
                 ^
2 errors
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:510)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:375)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
     org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:368)
root cause
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
An error occurred at line: 55 in the jsp file: /support_editUAT.jsp
Generated servlet error:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.netbeans\5.5.1\apache-tomcat-5.5.17_base\work\Catalina\localhost\MaintenanceSite\org\apache\jsp\support_005feditUAT_jsp.java:110: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable branchname
location: class org.apache.jsp.support_005feditUAT_jsp
      out.print( branchname);
                 ^
An error occurred at line: 91 in the jsp file: /support_editUAT.jsp
Generated servlet error:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.netbeans\5.5.1\apache-tomcat-5.5.17_base\work\Catalina\localhost\MaintenanceSite\org\apache\jsp\support_005feditUAT_jsp.java:148: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable branchname
location: class org.apache.jsp.support_005feditUAT_jsp
      out.print( branchname);
                 ^
2 errors
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:84)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:328)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.AntCompiler.generateClass(AntCompiler.java:249)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:297)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:276)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:264)
     org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:563)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:303)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
     org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:368)

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry for cross-posting. The other thread is here: http://forum.java.sun.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=9920352#
sunish_jose suggested that:
The servlet classes u mentioned in web.xml should be in WEB-INF/classes. U can add in many ways, you can manually copy and paste(But u have to follow the package structure) or You can mention the class folderd in your editor to
WEB-INF/classes so that the editor will automaticall generate the class file into that folder with the folder structure. By looking at the error.txt what I can understand is Exceptions are thrown due to the above issue and more than that there are some compilation errors in support_getContact.jsp.
And i'm looking into that right now.