Re: $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar?

Thanks i will contribute to the 'wiki' the only way to make improvements 
is/others to 'bang on it'-test it .
Thanks again for your help i will continue on until i get it to *just work*.
-Mel


Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-31-03 at 16:11 -0500, mel kravitz wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>one last question i have an application where several servlet pages 
>>fault with:
>>
>>*exception*
>>
>>org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
>>
>>No Java compiler was found to compile the generated source for the JSP. 
>>This can usually be solved by copying manually $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar from the JDK 
>>to the common/lib directory of the Tomcat server, followed by a Tomcat restart. 
>>If using an alternate Java compiler, please check its installation and access path.
>>
>>where is tools.jar? it is present in suns j2sdk.../lib/
>>    
>>
>
>At the moment there's no tools.jar in SableVM.  This should be fixed by
>the end of April.  Usually the only reason an app needs tools.jar is
>to call the Sun's compiler.  This is also why you're getting the above
>exception.
>
>In such case you always have to tell such a program not to use the Sun's
>compiler interface in tools.jar, but to use an external compiler (jikes)
>instead.
>
>You said you modified the web.xml but apparently jasper still looks for
>Sun's compiler, instead of using jikes.  Maybe you could try out the
>second instruction:
>
>http://www.telenovela-world.com/~spade/linux/howto/MMBase-Inst-HOWTO/x276.html
>
>by adding "-Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true -DjavaEncoding=ISO-8859-1" to
>your CATALINA_OPTS as well?
>
>HTH
>
>				Grzegorz B. Prokopski
>
>PS: Nothing private in this email, so I am Cc:ing sablevm-user,
>especially that there's plenty of people who will run into identical
>problems.
>
>Actually, when you're done, would you be able to go to
>
>	http://sablevm.org/wiki/Tomcat
>
>and write something in a shape of a step-by-step instruction about
>how to get Tomcat working with SableVM?  Later you could also point
>debian-alpha guys to that (I'll be uploading a new SableVM debs shortly,
>so that it wasn't necessary to recompile with 'direct' on alpha).
>  
>