JavaBeans in Tomcat

[vishwas madhuvarshi]

I am facing a strange problem in tomcat web server. I am using custom beans for storing information obtained from users while registering with my site. When I save the bean class file in Web-inf\classes directory, the server cannot access the bean but when the same bean is saved in a JAR file in package hierarchy in Web-inf\lib, the same is easily accessed by server. Why does this happen ?

[William Brogden]

Your bean class file must be in a package and the directory under WEB-INF/classes
must have the package path.
WEB-INF/classes/my/org/utility/BeanClass.class
Bill

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[vishwas madhuvarshi]

Thanks Bill. The bean is accessible now after putting it in a package hierarchy. But it is still not detected if I put it in classes directory without a package. Why does this happen.

[Ramneek Handa]

Hi vishwas,
believe me it is happening because you must have complied the bean use that package.
Bobby ;-}

[William Brogden]

"But it is still not detected if I put it in classes directory without a package. Why does this happen."
Thats just the way the class loader works, if it sees a plain Thingee.class reference it looks in the "current" directory, which for Tomcat is certainly not the WEB-INF/classes directory
Bill