Wow this issue is crazy prevalent to the LunarPages community.  I think many of us customers use Apache/Tomcat for their web server needs.  Sure LP  uses (what is new to me) Resin stuff.  Here's a link to another LP customer with the same issue as me, only four years ago.  It has no solution to it.  http://www.lunarforums.com/jsp_and_servlets_support/flustered_classpath_issues-t32816.0.html

I created some servlet code pre-compiled the classes on my local machine. 

I put the classes into the /public_html/WEB-INF/classes directory

then I updated the web.xml in the /public_html/WEB-INF directory

I put in the <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> entries so that I could name the action what I want in the JSP.   Here is the sample of the servlet mappings in the web.xml
  <servlet>
            <servlet-name>internal_getManufacturerList</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>GetManufacturerList</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>internal_getManufacturerList</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/GetManufacturerList.do</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

in my JSP I have some javascript to make the call
      ajaxRequest.open("POST", "GetManufacturerList.do", true);

Ultimately the servlet cannot be found.

Any help for me?

Replying to my own posts is like laughing at my own jokes, I'm a geek, I do that too.

I'm going to post the different combinations of what I am trying.  I will let you know that LP support is helping me.  THey are going to update me to the Resin 3.x server that has JDK1.6.     Here is something of note, the exception thrown, look at the version of resin at the bottom.  2003?  I am running on  7 year old server software?


I am running <myhost>/nortech/pla.jsp, this pla.jsp file calls functions in the GetInfo.java file. 

javax.servlet.ServletException: Class `/GetInfo' was not found in classpath.
Classes normally belong in /nortech/WEB-INF/classes.
   at com.caucho.server.http.Application.instantiateServlet(Application.java:3193)
   at com.caucho.server.http.Application.createServlet(Application.java:3101)
   at com.caucho.server.http.Application.loadServlet(Application.java:3062)
   at com.caucho.server.http.QServletConfig.loadServlet(QServletConfig.java:435)
   at com.caucho.server.http.Application.getFilterChainServlet(Application.java:2806)
   at com.caucho.server.http.Application.buildFilterChain(Application.java:2762)
   at com.caucho.server.http.Invocation.service(Invocation.java:313)
   at com.caucho.server.http.CacheInvocation.service(CacheInvocation.java:135)
   at com.caucho.server.http.RunnerRequest.handleRequest(RunnerRequest.java:344)
   at com.caucho.server.http.RunnerRequest.handleConnection(RunnerRequest.java:274)
   at com.caucho.server.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:139)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
        Resin 2.1.10 (built Wed Jun 18 09:16:53 PDT 2003)


Resin 2.1.10 (built Wed Jun 18 09:16:53 PDT 2003)

They have updated it.  It did not work.

Man, now I have to learn resin and the exact way they deploy.  This should be so stupidly easy.   JSPs/Servlets are a specification, apache adheres to it.   I am pretty sure resin does as well.   classes go into the WEB-INF/classes directory, then should be accessible.  That should be end of story, has to be a combination of my web.xml and what URL I am hitting, and where the class files are put.  

Ridiculous.  I have to learn a new server deploy, it should not have to be this way.  

Can someone out there in the lunar pages client base help me?