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  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #549904
  3. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 549904

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George (gnwiii) wrote : Re: [Bug 549904] Re: Help cannot be loaded: Error 500 Unable to compile class for JSP

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:47 AM, arkmundi <email address hidden> wrote:

> I've encountered this problem and will be working to fix it.  I did not
> install eclipse from any of the Ubuntu repositories, choosing to take
> advise elsewhere to install it directly from
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-
> developers/galileosr2.  This is because of the rich plug-in set for the
> Java EE IDE version of eclipse.  I'm running 10.04 lucid lynx.

While I was waiting for the Ubuntu fix in early May I installed
eclipse (on 10.4
amd64) from the eclipse.org packages and help was working for me. The fix also
worked for me, but I haven't used eclipse for a month or so, so it is
entirely possible
some more recent update has broken things again.

> FYI, I have the openjdk-6-jdk installed, so there must be something else misssing.  The error generated:
>  error accessing Help Contents
>  HTTP ERROR 500
>  Problem accessing /help/index.jsp. Reason:
>  Unable to compile class for JSP
> ... must indicate that the help contents are being freshly generated via an HTTP call for a JSP compilation.  So that must mean the correct classpath for compilation within the eclipse framework is missing.

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