i'm using a simple bean that stores username and password at the moment (so
that i know that the java file actually compiles and works) as the back end
to my jsp page. the name of the bean is rollbean.java and it compiles fine.

in my pages i have the following:
<jsp:useBean id="rollbook" class="rollbean" scope="session" />
up the top of the jsp file.

when i go to view the file in internet explorer the following message comes
up:

HTTP Status 500 -

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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

An error occurred at line: 2 in the jsp file: /menu.jsp

Generated servlet error:
   [javac] Compiling 1 source file

/usr/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16/work/Catalina/localhost/_/org/apache/jsp/menu_jsp
.java:43: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class rollbean
location: class org.apache.jsp.menu_jsp
     rollbean rollbook = null;
     ^

An error occurred at line: 2 in the jsp file: /menu.jsp

Generated servlet error:
/usr/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16/work/Catalina/localhost/_/org/apache/jsp/menu_jsp
.java:45: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class rollbean
location: class org.apache.jsp.menu_jsp
       rollbook = (rollbean) pageContext.getAttribute("rollbook",
PageContext.SESSION_SCOPE);
                   ^

An error occurred at line: 2 in the jsp file: /menu.jsp

Generated servlet error:
/usr/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16/work/Catalina/localhost/_/org/apache/jsp/menu_jsp
.java:47: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class rollbean
location: class org.apache.jsp.menu_jsp
         rollbook = new rollbean();
                        ^
3 errors

org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandle
r.java:127)

org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:3
51)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:415)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:458)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:439)

org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:5
52)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:2
91)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.

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the jsp page is in the /ROOT directory and the class and java files are in
the /ROOT/WEB-INF/classes directory.

i have no idea why this is happening so any help would be appreciated. i
tried editing the servlet produced, but as soon as i saved it i reloaded the
pages and it wrote over the top with the bad version

thanks heaps for the help

sam