Urgent!!!! What is General Error ?

[Ved Antani]

I am using JSP,Servlets,Tomcat 3.2 and IIS(service pack 4) through the redirector.
The JSP compiler throws a strange error - General Error.
I m sending the actual description.
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Error: 500
Location:/bidding/jsp/biddingpage1.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:
javax.servlet.ServletException: General error
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:448)
at _0002fbiddingpage_00031_0002ejspbiddingpage1_jsp_6._jspService(_0002fbiddingpage_00031_0002ejspbiddingpage1_jsp_6.java:311)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:177)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:296)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:369)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:368)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:261)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:356)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:720)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:666)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:403)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Root cause:
java.lang.Exception: General error
at _0002fbiddingpage_00031_0002ejspbiddingpage1_jsp_6._jspService(_0002fbiddingpage_00031_0002ejspbiddingpage1_jsp_6.java:300)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:177)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:296)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:369)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:368)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:261)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:356)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:720)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:666)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:403)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
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Please send me the answer quickly.

[Simon Brown]

In Tomcat there is a work directory where you can see all of the translated JSP pages. One way to try and figure out what is going on is to look at line 300 of _0002fbiddingpage_00031_0002ejspbiddingpage1_jsp_6.java (from your stack trace).
Simon
[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: Simon Brown ]