Bean Importing error

When I am using trying to use a bean in my jsp files I get an error unless I put in the entire class path (in the useBean tag). I have my class in WEB-INF/classes/some/thing/database/ConnectorBean.class
<jsp

irective.page import="some.thing.database.*" info="Bean Tester Page" contentType="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
<HTML>
<BODY>

<jsp:useBean id="dbconnector" class="some.thing.database.ConnectorBean" scope="application" />
Like I said it works fine unless I take out the full class path (which should not be required). I made a .jar file, which resides in the WEB-INF/lib/ folder. Does this need to be in the $CLASSPATH variable? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[ November 18, 2003: Message edited by: Kerry Wilson ]

When I am using trying to use a bean in my jsp files I get an error unless I put in the entire class path

What makes you think you can get away without specifying the full name of the class?
bear

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:

What makes you think you can get away without specifying the full name of the class?
bear

his import statement i presume

The import statement is immaterial. Although the means of instantiation is left up to the container, most servlet containers will use Class.forName() (or something that eventually calls forName() such as java.beans.Beans.instantiate()) which require a full class name to operate.
Resin, interestingly enough, is the only container I tested that does a direct "new" operation, and hence is sensitive to the import.
Bottom line is, specify the full class name.
bear

That's the operative word, BTW, it's fully-qaulified class name, not class path, which is a thing 'nother entirely.

So if I am going to need to put the fully qualified class name in every usebean tag what good is the import statement?
[ November 19, 2003: Message edited by: Kerry Wilson ]

The import statement will apply to any Java scriplets that you write in the JSP. <normal disclaimer about accepted best practice is to limit scriplets>
bear

Understood, thanks alot.