Bruce:
I am not a hundred percent sure of this, but try setting your classpath to the
jar "file" iteself; eg: "/blah/blahblah/servlet.jar".. I *think* the jar file
is thought of as a directory. Anyways, since it shouldnt take long, it's
probably worth a try..!
Geeta
Bruce Knipe wrote:
> I've been trying to compile a servlet that depends on the contents of
> servlet.jar.
>
> When I set my CLASSPATH to the directory that contains servlet.jar file
> I get import errors stating :
> --------------------
> javac bruce.java
> bruce.java:5: Package javax.servlet not found in import.
> import javax.servlet.*;
> --------------------
>
> When I unpack the jar file I can compile without errors.
>
> Now my question is: Is this the way things are supposed to work or is
> there some way for javac to get the classes out of the jar without
> unpacking them?
>
> If not then I have a problem because when I unpack some .jar files I get
> "Can't create directory" errors and I'm likely going to run into all
> kinds of problems later on.
>
> -Bruce
>
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