
i am trying to run a simple jsp page in tomcat,i am having web.xml also in WEB-INF folder. but it is giving me this error below....please help me to solve it.
my jsp page code is given below and its in webapps/pintu/pintu.jsp
Hello<%=new String("world!") %>
and then i tried in browser http://localhost:8080/pintu/pintu.jsp
HTTP Status 500 -
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: 22 in the generated java file The method getJspApplicationContext(ServletContext) is undefined for the type JspFactory
Stacktrace: org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:92) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330) org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:423) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:317) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:295) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:282) org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:586) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:317) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)

Hello Friend,
Have you set the class path of your apache tomcat? It seems that problem might be there.
Thanks

yes...i did. i.e
SET CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\lib\servlet-api.jar
using this ,i am able to run all servlet programs but not .jsp files.
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