I wish to echo Gary's comments, I have just done this. The complciations required of earlier versions of Snipsnap are no longer required.

Just down load the __.jar__ to your instance CLASSPATH lib, and restart the server. I used V1.0b3, Java Server. For more, see also

http://davelevy.dyndns.info/snipsnap/space/Dave/Developing+Snipsnap

although there isn't very much more