jasper Exception: unable to compile JSP

[hari vemulapalli]

Hi

I have a simple Jsp page and Iam using sunone server . after I deploy my dynamic web application in sun one and try to access that simple jsp i am getting the

following Error. My jsp has just body sayiing this is my first Jsp...

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

Do I need to set any path for this??? And the Server is not in my local machine.

Any one please help me to solve this.

[Ulf Dittmer]

My guess would be that either not all required jar files are in the WEB-INF/lib directory, or that the JSP is missing an import statement. The complete error message (and stack trace) should mention what's going wrong.

[hari vemulapalli]

Thanks for the reply...
Here is the stacktrace
type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:101)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:351)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:448)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:506)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:485)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:473)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:516)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:307)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:297)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:247)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:860)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:249)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:282)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:165)


root cause

Error running /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/bin/javac compiler
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.DefaultCompilerAdapter.executeExternalCompile(DefaultCompilerAdapter.java:473)
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.JavacExternal.execute(JavacExternal.java:47)
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:931)
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:757)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:409)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:506)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:485)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:473)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:516)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:307)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:297)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:247)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:860)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:249)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:282)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:165)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Sun-Java-System/Application-Server logs.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Do other JSP pages work?

[hari vemulapalli]

None of the jsps are working. But if I change the file extention from jsp to html and deploy that it s working fine.
None of the jsps in my web application are working. i am using Eclipse editor. This is because of missing jar files I suppose as I am trying to access simple jsp that has <html> and <body> tags. previously it was working . suddenly it started giving this error.all the jar files are under project/Buildpath /configure buildpath/Libraries in Eclipse.
should we have any jars under web-inf/lib directory....
without having the jars under lib i could access my application previously.
please suggest me

[Ulf Dittmer]

If no JSPs work then it's unlikely to be a matter of missing classes or jar files. The message sounds as if the servlet container is not set up correctly with a compiler (which it needs for running JSPs).

Is this a standalone Tomcat, or is it somehow integrated with Eclipse?

[hari vemulapalli]

I am using Sun One Server and thats not running on my local machine.

[Amol Nayak]

Can it be an OS permissions issue as it is not able to invoke javac?