RE: "...is not a servlet", yes I *have* RTFM, my jre/lib/ext is empty! -- fixed

[Peter Ferne <pe...@e-people.com>]

FYI I fixed it by recompiling against the new jars.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com [mailto:Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com]
> Sent: 28 September 2001 14:48
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: "...is not a servlet", yes I *have* RTFM, my jre/lib/ext is
> empty!
> 
> 
> Also, check to make sure that your don't have servlet.jar in any of 
> your servlet lib directories. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: petef [mailto:petef@e-people.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:31 AM
> > To: tomcat-user
> > Cc: petef
> > Subject: "...is not a servlet", yes I *have* RTFM, my jre/lib/ext is
> > empty!
> > 
> > 
> > Whilst searching the mailing list archives for the answer to the
> > (apparently) perennial "X is not a servlet" problem, I found 
> > the following
> > proposed solution:
> > 
> > > From: "Craig R. McClanahan"
> > > Subject:  Re: desperate: Tomcat complaining my servlet is 
> > not a servlet
> > > Date:  Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:02:00 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > > A quick search of the mailing list archives will show at least 20
> > > answers to this question :-).
> > >
> > > Remove any old copy of servlet.jar (or j2ee.jar) from your Java
> > > system extensions directory ($JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext) -- it 
> > interferes
> > > with Tomcat's normal operation.
> > >
> > > Craig McClanahan
> > 
> > However, I have already done this and the problem persists.  The only
> > accessible jars I have are the ones which come with the 
> > Tomcat 4.0 Final
> > binary distribution, honest.  All the others are in a 
> > jar-bucket folder well
> > away from tomcat and the jdk/jre and no explicit classpath is set as a
> > matter of course.  Strangely strange.
> > 
> > If anyone has had similar experiences which they would care 
> > to share I would
> > be grateful to hear about them.  I'll continue delving and 
> > report back if I
> > get to the bottom of it.
> > --
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