Hi, I tried switching to Jikes with Tomcat release 4.1.27 (LE-JDK1.4), and it would appear that the version of "ant.jar" you use internally in Tomcat to compile JSP pages is out of date with regards to the latest versions of Jikes (which have been around for a while now).
The Javac Ant task is specifying an "-encoding" option for Jikes, which Jikes is refusing. I'm using "Jikes Compiler - Version 1.18 - 21 November 2002" (according to the "jikes -version" command) on Win2000. See below for Jasper's output. I have no problem using Jikes standalone, or with Ant 1.5.3's Javac task (outside of Tomcat). I'm using Sun's JDK 1.4.2 on Win2000 SP4. Hope this helps, Chris B. ____________________________________________________________ org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP An error occurred at line: -1 in the jsp file: null Generated servlet error: [javac] Compiling 1 source file [javac] use: jikes [options] [EMAIL PROTECTED] file.java... [javac] For more help, try -help or -version. [javac] Error: The option "-encoding" is unsupported in this build. at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandle r.java:130) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:2 93) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:353) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:370) at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:4 73) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:1 90) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]