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REPORT #329 Details.

Project: Tomcat
Category: Bug Report
SubCategory: New Bug Report
Class: docbug
State: received
Priority: high
Severity: serious
Confidence: public
Environment: 
   Release: 3.1
   JVM Release: 1.2 +
   Operating System: Solaris and NT
   OS Release: Any
   Platform: Solaris and NT

Synopsis: 
.java Package names that start with a '.'

Description:
This snippet is take from an error I get when I invoke a jsp in a new window
Error: 500

Location:
//Portal302/pane/mypicture/fileUpload.jsp

Internal Servlet Error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSPC:\j\work\localhost_8080\_0002f_0002fPortal_00033_00030_00032_0002fpane_0002fmypicture_0002ffileUpload_0002ejspfileUpload_jsp_0.java:1: Identifier expected.
package .Portal_00033_00030_00032.pane.mypicture;
       ^
C:\j\work\localhost_8080\_0002f_0002fPortal_00033_00030_00032_0002fpane_0002fmypicture_0002ffileUpload_0002ejspfileUpload_jsp_0.java:19: Superclass HttpJspBase of class _0002f_0002fPortal_00033_00030_00032_0002fpane_0002fmypicture_0002ffileUpload_0002ejspfileUpload_jsp_0 not found.
public class _0002f_0002fPortal_00033_00030_00032_0002fpane_0002fmypicture_0002ffileUpload_0002ejspfileUpload_jsp_0 extends HttpJspBase {
                                                                                                                            ^
2 errors

        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:247)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:413)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspServlet.java:149)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:161)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:261)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:369)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:503)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:559)
        at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:156)
        at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java:338)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


it seems to have lost touch with the parent servlet and hence cannot use it to generate the name for the (.java) files
This wouldn't be a problem but this short package name starts with a '.' and javac won't compile it