Unable to compile class

[nobr]I'm in the process of teaching myself how to use JSPs and JavaBeans, and I'm running into a problem that I can't figure out. I'm following a tutorial in which I use a simple bean (UserData) to collect and retrieve simple user data.

However, I continue to get this error from the Tomcat Server:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

An error occurred at line: 9 in the jsp file: /saveName.jsp

Generated servlet error:

C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28\work\Catalina\localhost\_\org\apache\jsp\saveName_jsp.java:51: cannot access myPackage.UserData

An error occurred at line: 9 in the jsp file: /saveName.jsp

Generated servlet error:

bad class file: C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28\webapps\Root\WEB-INF\classes\myPackage\UserData.class

class file contains wrong class: UserData

Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.

UserData user = null;

1 error

org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:84)

org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:332)

org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:412)

org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:472)

org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:451)

org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:439)

org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:511)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:295)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

And here is the code for the 4 files involved:

1. getName.html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Getting Your Name</title>

</head>

<body>

What's your name?

<br />

What's your e-mail address?

<br />

What's your age?

</form>

</body>

</html>

2. saveName.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" language="java" import="myPackage.*" errorPage="" %>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<jsp:useBean id="user" type="UserData" scope="session" />

<jsp:setProperty name="user" property="*" />

<body>

<a href="nextPage.jsp">Continue</a>

</body>

</html>

3. nextPage.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" language="java" import="myPackage.*" errorPage="" %>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<jsp:useBean id="user" type="UserData" scope="session" />

<body>

Hello, <%= user.getUsername() %>! (e-mail: <%= user.getEmail() %>)<br />

You are <%= user.getAge() %> years old.<br />

Your age rating is

int age = user.getAge();

if (age < 0) out.println("impossible!");

elseif (age < 30) out.println("young.");

elseif (age < 50) out.println("old.");

else out.println("ancient!");

</body>

</html>

4. UserData.java

// Java Document

package myPackage;

publicclass UserData{

String username;

String email;

int age;

publicvoid setUsername(String value){

username = value;

}

publicvoid setEmail(String value){

email = value;

}

publicvoid setAge(int value){

age = value;

}

public String getUsername(){

return username;

}

public String getEmail(){

return email;

}

publicint getAge(){

return age;

}

The JSP and HTML files are in the Root directory; the class file for UserData is in Root\WEB-INF\classes\myPackage

And here is the environment information: the server is running Windows 98, Jakarta Tomcat ver. 5.0.28, and Java 2 Standard Edition ver. 1.4.2_06. The files have been written in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

Any suggestions?[/nobr]

[7772 byte] By [rainmongera] at [2007-10-2 14:24:00]

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