Add servlet.jar to your classpath.
It can be found in TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 10:09 pm, Steve Carson-Rowland wrote:
> I am just trying to get up and running with JSP, and have installed
> Tomcat 5.0. I am using Sams "Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages". The code
> in the book, and the instructions are all based on Tomcat 4.0.3.
>
> (I am running Windows XP Professional).
>
> When I try and compile the following:
> -------------------------------------------
> import java.io.*;
> import javax.servlet.*;
> import javax.servlet.http.*;
>
> public class ch01_06 extends HttpServlet
> {
> public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response)
> throws IOException, ServletException
> {
> response.setContentType("text/html");
> PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
>
> out.println("<HTML>");
> out.println("<HEAD>");
> out.println("<TITLE>");
> out.println("A Web Page");
> out.println("</TITLE>");
> out.println("</HEAD>");
> out.println("Hello there!");
> out.println("</BODY>");
> out.println("</HTML>");
> }
> }
>
> -------------------------------------------
> I get the following errors:
>
> ------------------------------
> C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
> 5.0\webapps\ch01>javac ch01_06.java
> ch01_06.java:2: package javax.servlet does not exist
> import javax.servlet.*;
> ^
> ch01_06.java:3: package javax.servlet.http does not exist
> import javax.servlet.http.*;
> ^
> ch01_06.java:5: cannot resolve symbol
> symbol : class HttpServlet
> location: class ch01_06
> public class ch01_06 extends HttpServlet
> ^
> ch01_06.java:7: cannot resolve symbol
> symbol : class HttpServletRequest
> location: class ch01_06
> public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
> ^
> ch01_06.java:8: cannot resolve symbol
> symbol : class HttpServletResponse
> location: class ch01_06
> HttpServletResponse response)
> ^
> ch01_06.java:9: cannot resolve symbol
> symbol : class ServletException
> location: class ch01_06
> throws IOException, ServletException
> ^
> 6 errors
> -----------------------------------
>
> I am guessing it is because my book tells me to set CLASSPATH to the
> path for 'servlet.jar', but when I look in the 'lib' directory I only
> see a 'servlet-api.jar' file. So I set the CLASSPATH to servlet-api.jar.
> (When this didn't work I did try changing the path to 'servlet.jar' just
> to check but same result).
>
> But the code is written with "import javax.servlet.* " - is this the
> problem?
>
> Because I am totally new to Java I can't figure out what to change. I
> also can't find a 'what's changed from Tomcat 4.0 to 5.0' file to help
> me understand.
>
> Anyone offer any advice?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Carson
> Brisbane
> Australia
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Ben Souther
F.W. Davison & Company, Inc.
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