Getting InstantiationException

[Lakshmi Geetha]

hi,
i have written a simple bean and am trying to use it in a jsp page.
i am getting the following exception.
please help in finding out the problem.
thanks
exception
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500 Servlet Exception
java.lang.InstantiationException: `allbeans.MyBean' has no public zero-arg
constructor
at _test._myjsp__jsp._jspService(/test/MyJSP.jsp:14)
at com.caucho.jsp.JavaPage.service(JavaPage.java:74)
at com.caucho.jsp.Page.subservice(Page.java:485)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainPage.doFilter(FilterChainPage.java:179)
at com.caucho.server.http.Invocation.service(Invocation.java:288)
at com.caucho.server.http.CacheInvocation.service(CacheInvocation.java:132)
at com.caucho.server.http.ServletServer.serviceTop(ServletServer.java:937)
at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleRequest(HttpRequest.java:213)
at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleConnection(HttpRequest.java:158)
at com.caucho.server.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:140)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

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In my jsp page
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<jsp:useBean id="myBean" class="allbeans.MyBean" scope="request" />
my bean class
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package allbeans;
import java.io.*;
public class MyBean implements Serializable
{
public MyBean()
{
_name = "geetha";
}
public String getName()
{
return _name;
}
public void setName(String name)
{
_name = name;
}
private String _name;

}

[Tim Holloway]

Well obviously it DOES have a zero-argument public constructor.
1. Does the source filename EXACTLY (including upper/lower case) match the class name? This SHOULDN'T cause that exception (there's a different exception reserved for that, but maybe it didn't catch it).
2. Have you placed the class in WEB-INF/classes/allbeans/MyBean.class?
3. If so, recompile, move the class file to that location, and restart the server.