Hello there! Thanks for posting this intro to JSP. However, I'm having the same problem when adding the line
<Context path="/star" docBase="star" debug="1" reloadable"true"/>
Even when I've created the folder, Tomcat would shut down anyway. And no bother to remove the line, Tomcat wont be able to start again until reinstall.
Anyway I've notice a couple of things that may help solving this problem, I didn't find any CLASSPATH environment variable when doing that variable setting thing and I'm using JSDK 1.4 and windows XP. Well, thank you again and hope you can help me!