deploying the PlantsByWebsphere app on Tomcat

Greetings,

I am in an E-Commerce Administration class, and last week we got stumped on a problem with this app. PlantsByWebsphere is a pretty simple app, and we thought we should be able to extract the WAR from the EAR and throw it up on Tomcat (v5.5.9). Alas, it has proven itself to be more complicated than that. It deploys without errors, but the RequestDispatchers are not working properly. We keep getting that darn 500 error: "Pathjsp_page does not start with a "/" character". I know there is a fundamental problem here somewhere, but I'm still learning so I don't know if it's in the actual servlet code or in Tomcat's configuration... or both... or neither!

If you're familiar with this app, I'd really appreciate your input on this. Even if you're not, but are pretty good with servlets, I'd be appreciative!

Thanks in advance,

Bill

[890 byte] By [Vegtabilla] at [2007-10-2 3:13:00]
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Well, we were able to figure it out today. As it turns out, I had it all along... I just didn't realize that changes made in the app's source code in Tomcat don't automatically get re-compiled. I went in, made the changes, manually compiled the source code, and copied them back into the classes dir in Tomcat... and of course, it worked. So I learned something, which is a good thing, right?

thanks anyway,

Bill

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