Servlet Tomcat question

[Leon Vermaak]

I am new to this. I installed Tomcat successfully. I tried to compile a simple servlet, but the compiler could not find the the necessary servlet classes... I have windows me operating system. I read about setting JAVA_HOME, but all documents assume previous knowledge!?! I read a document on the Tomcat file hirarchy. I read the Jakarta Tomkat 4.0 Documents from a to z, but still am a bit a a loss... can't seem to put my mind around it to understand it enough. Any help would be trully appreciated.