Please help 'package javax.servlet does not exist'

[wes]

Hi All,

I am having some issues and need help. I am new at Java developement and need to do an assignment. My Virtual has the following:

- Tomcat 5.5
- jdk 1.5.0_02
- Textpad

I have heard that there are better IDE's but not interested as Textpad is plain and simpel to me for what I need to do.

Now the problem I am getting when importing javax.servlet.* I get the following when compiling
- package javax.servlet does not exist
- cannot find symbol symbol: class HttpServlet

I did research and all says that the classpath needs to change to point to 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\common\lib\servlet-api.jar'
so I took the steps to do this but then I get another error 'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: myTest'.

Can anyone please tell me how would be the simplest to get around this and what am I missing??


Kind regards,

[sunde887]

What's the full exception thrown?

[wes]

C:\Documents and Settings\BPUser\Desktop\test.java:2: package javax.servlet does not exist
import javax.servlet.*;
^
C:\Documents and Settings\BPUser\Desktop\test.java:4: cannot find symbol
symbol: class HttpServlet
public class test extends HttpServlet
^
2 errors

Tool completed with exit code 1

[DarrylBurke]

I did research and all says that the classpath needs to change to point to 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\common\lib\servlet-api.jar'
so I took the steps to do this but then I get another error 'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: myTest'.

You need both the jar and the current working directory on the classpath. Add a ".;" (windows) or ".:' (*n[ui]x) ahead of the path to the jar.

That's "dot semicolon" or "dot colon" in case the punctuation characters are hard to read.

db

[wes]

Darry thanks for the reply.

Am I correct then in my example below from command prompt?

set CLASSPATH="[SourceFile Directory]".;"[Dir]\api-servlet.jar"

Thanks,

[DarrylBurke]

There's no need to 'set CLASSPATH' you can just pass the class path to the -cp flag.

db