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Answers

I am unable to compile my JSP!

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1. Download Tomcat's base and admin webapp distributions (binaries), unzip to a directory of your choice. We'll use c:\temp in this example. 2. Edit c:\temp\server\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\web.xml to remove the JSPC-generated servlet mappings. These are marked in the web.xml file with comments indicating the beginning and end of the JSPC section. You can simply comment out all these servlet-mappping elements. Be careful not to comment out other servlet mappings such as the Struts dispatcher servlet. 3. Open c:\temp\server\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\lib\catalina-admin.jar with a zip file program like WinZip. Remove the files named *_jsp.class, as these are the compiled JSPs. Do not remove the other class files, the ones under the org/apache/ paths. 4. Download a Tomcat source distribution and unzip it to a directory of your choice, but not the same directory that you used above. We'll use c:\src in this example. 5. Copy everything except the WEB-INF/lib directory from c:\src\container\webapps\admin to c:\temp\server\webapps\admin. Now you will have the uncompiled admin webapp JSPs. 6. If you haven't already, define an admin user in %CATALINA_HOME%\conf\tomcat-users.xml. 7. Start Tomcat, navigate to http://localhost:8080 (or your actual server:port if you have modified the default values), and access the admin web application. It will run slower because Tomcat is now compiling the JSPs on-demand the first time you access them, but should otherwise appear normal.
   

What order do webapps start (or How can I change startup order)?

There is no expected startup order. Neither the Servlet spec nor Tomcat define one. You can't rely on the apps starting in any particular order.