| Re: Frustration developing simple Dynamic Web App [message #1716555] |
Fri, 04 December 2015 19:12 |
 Ed Merks
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Registered: July 2009 |
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Charles,
Best to discuss this on the Web Tools forum. This isn't a JDT issue.
On 04/12/2015 2:55 PM, Charles Fisher wrote:
> I have just deployed a fresh new Mars Eclipse for J2EE IDE package. I
> tried to create a simple Dynamic Web Application with a single JSP and
> a single servlet. I have watched two separate reasonably good YouTube
> tutorials. Here are the two problems:
>
> 1) In the tutorials, when the developer creates a New -> Servlet, the
> appropriate lines are added to the web.xml file. When I do it they are
> not.
>
> 2) In the tutorials, they create an "index.jsp" JSP, and tweak it a
> little, and then they "Run on the Server" and it just runs. When I do
> it - and I have tried this with both the preview server and with a
> Tomcat 7 I installed - the servers themselves start, but they both
> give me the error,
> HTTP ERROR 500
>
> Problem accessing /SimpleWebApp/index.jsp. Reason: JSP support not
> configured
>
> The tutorials didn't do anything special to configure JSP support, but
> I am clearly missing something here. I have pored over the "Web Tools
> Project" help files in Eclipse and I can't find anything addressing
> this problem.
>
> This makes me nostalgic for the old Error Code manuals you used to get
> with IBM mainframe products: if you could get an error code or error
> text, it was in the manual. Documentation these days seems a lot more
> hit or miss. Of course Eclipse is a volunteer organization, so if I
> find a gap I can voluteer to fill it, right?
>
> TIA for any help.
>
>
Ed Merks
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