Problem solved: Due to an error in my ant target for precompiling JSP which was hidden by the fact that I had Netbeans test compiling the JSPs, the end result was that the JSP was precompiled using Netbeans JspC instead of jasper JspC. Netbeans 6 JspC is apparently a few generation newer than that of jasper in Tomcat 5.5 and generates incompatible results.
Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/03/2008 03:49 PM Please respond to "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> To users@tomcat.apache.org cc Subject Problems with precompiled JSP on Tomcat 5,5 Hi all, I am having a problem with some precompiled JSP files on Tomcat 5.5 (problem not observed on 6.0). Below is the description: Target environment: OS: Linux CentOS 4.5 Tomcat: 5.5.26 JDK: 1.5.0_08 & 1.6.0_10 The error: exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet org.apache.jsp.test_jsp threw exception org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874) ... root cause java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.jsp.JspFactory.getJspApplicationContext(Ljavax/servlet/ServletContext;)Ljavax/servlet/jsp/JspApplicationContext; org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspInit(Unknown Source) org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.init(HttpJspBase.java:80) ... The JSP: test.jsp: <%-- Document : test Created on : 18-Mar-2008, 2:27:07 PM Author : haiv --%> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>JSP Page</title> </head> <body> <h2>Hello World!</h2> </body> </html> The Ant target for precompiling the JSP: <target depends="compile" description="Compile JSP pages." name="-pre-dist"> <property environment="env"/> <taskdef classname="org.apache.jasper.JspC" name="jasper2" > <classpath id="jspc.classpath"> <pathelement location="${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar"/> <fileset dir="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/bin"> <include name="*.jar"/> </fileset> <fileset dir="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/server/lib"> <include name="*.jar"/> </fileset> <fileset dir="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/common/lib"> <include name="*.jar"/> </fileset> </classpath> </taskdef> <jasper2 verbose="1" validateXml="false" uriroot="${basedir}/${build.web.dir}" webXmlFragment="${basedir}/${build.web.dir}/WEB-INF/generated_web.xml" outputDir="${basedir}/${build.web.dir}/WEB-INF/src" /> <property name="platform.home" value="platforms.${platform.active}.home"/> <mkdir dir="${build.generated.dir}/src"/> <javac target="1.5" executable="${platform.home}/bin/javac" classpath="${j2ee.platform.classpath}:${build.classes.dir}:${jspcompilation.classpath}" destdir="${basedir}/${build.web.dir}/WEB-INF/classes" srcdir="${build.generated.dir}/src"/> </target> Any pointer would be greatly appreciated, Hai Vu