Sounds like you may have a JRE instead of a JDK. >From a command like do: cd $JAVA_HOME find -iname javac
You should see one listed as './bin/javac' after running that second command. Larry On 4/1/06, Martin Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My webapps needs to access the javac compiler classes from tools.jar. > > This appears to work on dev environment on Windows, but it doesn't > in a deployment environment: > Solaris 9 > JDK 1.5.0_06 > > The app hits a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.tools.javac.Main > > According to the documentation, tools.jar should always be in the > class path: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html > > Looking at the startup scripts (I think I saw it in the doumentation too > somewhere) there is a 'javac' option (in catalina.sh), which appears > to be in some state of disrepair. At least the order of arguments > passed from startup.sh does not match how catalina.sh looks at the args, > nor does catalina.sh actually consume the 'javac', or evaluate it > as a valid command. > > I guess I'm confused at this stage as to what to believe and how to proceed. > > Martin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
