Hi,

Can someone pls tell me what I did wrong here? The java compiler keeps
complaining about the List class.  I include the error, my PATH, and source
code below:
Thanks much in advance.
TN
======================   Error ===============
C:\APPLET~1\client>javac TestDBApplet.java
TestDBApplet.java:12: Ambiguous class: java.awt.List and java.util.List
        private List studentList;
                                ^
TestDBApplet.java:22: Ambiguous class: java.awt.List and java.util.List
                studentList = new List();
                                  ^
TestDBApplet.java:23: Class <<ambiguous>>List not found in void init().
                studentList.setFont(new Font("monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 12)
                                   ^
TestDBApplet.java:24: Class <<ambiguous>>List not found in void init().
                this.add(BorderLayout.CENTER, studentList);
                        ^
========================= Path
==================================================

C:\APPLET~1\client>path
PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\ORANT\BIN;C:\ORAWIN\BIN;u:\;;C:\WINDO
WS\S
ystem32\WBEM;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WBEM;C:\MSSQL7\BINN;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft
Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\Common
\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Fi
les\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin;c:\program
files\devstudio\sharedide\bin\id
e;c:\program files\devstudio\sharedide\bin;c:\program
files\devstudio\vc\bin;c:\
informix\bin;c:\jdk1.2.2\bin;c:\jdk1.2.2\jre\bin;c:\tomcat3.2.1\jakarta-tomc
at-3
.2.1\webapps\webdev\WEB-INF\classes




==========  my source code below ==========



import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.applet.*;

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class TestDBApplet extends Applet
{

        private List studentList;
        private TextArea statusTextArea;


        private final int COLUMN_WIDTH = 20;

        public void init()
        {
                this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

                studentList = new List();
                studentList.setFont(new Font("monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 12));
                this.add(BorderLayout.CENTER, studentList);

        }

}

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