Dear Sir/Madam, I have met a problem installing tomcat, such a problem has not been raised yet. „h I have already setup system path and classpath for jdk in C:\autoexec.bat as follow: set path=C:\jdk1.2\bin set classpath=.;C:\jdk1.2\lib\tools.jar It works well with normal java example test. „h My tomcat.bat has been changed as follow: @echo off rem A batch file to start/stop tomcat server. rem This batch file written and tested under Windows NT rem Improvements to this file are welcome rem Guess TOMCAT_HOME if it is not present set Java_home=c:\jdk1.2 if not "%TOMCAT_HOME%" == "" goto gothome ...... „h The error message I get when startup tomcat server is followed: Java window: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org/apache/tomcat/service/http/HttpConnectionHandler at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Compiled Code) at org.apache.tomcat.service.SimpleTcpConnector.setProperty(SimpleTcpConnector.java:180) ...... Finished startup: Starting tomcat in new window Using classpath: ..\classes;..\lib\webserver.jar;..\lib\jasper.jar;..\lib\xml.jar;..\lib\servlet.jar;.; C:\jdk1.2\lib\tools.jar „h I have checked that org/apache/tomcat/service/http/HttpConnectionHandler.java exists in C:\Tomcat\Binary\src\org folder Can you help me out ? thanks Jack Miao _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.