Hi Karthik (and JAVARANCHers) ,
Thanks for your help and I've been following your suggestions.
However, after several hours (I was up all night and I have been working on it tonight as well) of trying different things in J-Builder8 (Enterprise Trial) and Explorer; and after destroying/re-installing J-Builder, I'm a little closer but I still have same the same problem: I cannot compile in J-Builder because SimpleTagSupport class cannot be found in javax.servlet.jsp.tagext
My current try was as follows and contains a bizarre mystery: I un-zipped the servlet-api and the jsp-api jars and put their class contents into J-Builder8's class structure; then I was able to compile ONE TIME ONLY BECAUSE THEN J-BUILDER8 DELETED the SimpleTagSupport.class !?!: I did this several times and I received the same results.
In summary, I know that my Tomcat 5.0 is installed corrected; and I believe that the problem area is that J-Builder8 is stuck in Tomcat 4.1 (cannot point J-Builder8 to Tomcat 5.0 and expect the new javax classes to appear); and I believe that J-Builder8 cannot be taught to "CLASSPATH" over to Tomcat 5.0 in terms of the new
JSP and
Servlet specifications.
Is it possible that you or someone can please give me exact instructions as to how I should key in the CLASSPATH in J-Builder8 so that I can point to the new JSP 2.0 (jsp-api.jar) and Servlet 1.4 (servlet-api.jar) spec, please ?
Thanks. Take care.