Training class - Lab1 - hit "delete" unless you're a student or like to whine..;)

Vic/fellow-students:

I have been trying to run the apps (step 1 in lab1) and have been
running into problems.  First I could not seem to even deploy
struts-menu.war (resin seemed to go into an infinte loop). I removed the
load-on-startup param in web.xml and then at least got resin to behave
(sort of).  I've tried several things (like removing more parts of the
web.xml) but have finally hit a 500 Servlet error:
"javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: The menu repository could not be found.

 at
com.fgm.web.menu.displayer.taglib.UseMenuDisplayerTag.doStartTag()I(Unknown
Source)
etc.."
So I've given up on this app.

As for the other apps, deploying is not a problem but I don't think they
are running properly. For example,  I can bring up the
"Standard-examples" pages ok and can view the "Source of jsp" pages
fine, but trying to *run* them (clicking on the cogs-icon) return a
pageful of nasty errors. (I can elaborate if necessary.)

Has anybody successfully solved these problems..?

Thanks,
Geeta