Re: ANT Build: package javax.servlet does not exist

[Rick Roberts]

I am trying to work thru Ted Husted, et al "Struts in Action".

The tutorials are designed to use ANT to build the build.xml.

I don't know much about ANT, but am assuming that it's javac that will use my 
CLASSPATH when ANT calls javac to compile the source.

He provides a build.xml in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src

All I am doing is typing "ant" from that directory.

The complete output that I get follows:

Please help!! :)

Buildfile: build.xml

clean:
   [delete] Deleting directory 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/classes
    [mkdir] Created dir: /var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/classes

prepare:

resources:
     [copy] Copying 1 file to 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/classes

compile:
    [javac] Compiling 5 source files to 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/classes
    [javac] Note: 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java 
uses or overrides a deprecated API.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -deprecation for details.

javadoc:
   [delete] Deleting directory 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/doc/api
    [mkdir] Created dir: /var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/doc/api
  [javadoc] Generating Javadoc
  [javadoc] Javadoc execution
  [javadoc] Loading source files for package app...
  [javadoc] Constructing Javadoc information...
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:66: 
package javax.servlet does not exist
  [javadoc] import javax.servlet.ServletException;
  [javadoc]                      ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:67: 
package javax.servlet.http does not exist
  [javadoc] import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
  [javadoc]                           ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:68: 
package javax.servlet.http does not exist
  [javadoc] import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
  [javadoc]                           ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:69: 
package javax.servlet.http does not exist
  [javadoc] import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
  [javadoc]                           ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:120: 
cannot resolve symbol
  [javadoc] symbol  : class HttpServletRequest
  [javadoc] location: class app.LogonAction
  [javadoc]             HttpServletRequest request,
  [javadoc]             ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:121: 
cannot resolve symbol
  [javadoc] symbol  : class HttpServletResponse
  [javadoc] location: class app.LogonAction
  [javadoc]             HttpServletResponse response)
  [javadoc]             ^
  [javadoc] Standard Doclet version 1.4.1

  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:122: 
cannot resolve symbol
  [javadoc] symbol  : class ServletException
  [javadoc] location: class app.LogonAction
  [javadoc]         throws IOException, ServletException {
  [javadoc]                             ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonForm.java:65: 
package javax.servlet.http does
not exist
  [javadoc] import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
  [javadoc]                           ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonForm.java:161: 
cannot resolve symbol
  [javadoc] symbol  : class HttpServletRequest
  [javadoc] location: class app.LogonForm
  [javadoc]         HttpServletRequest request) {
  [javadoc]         ^
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonForm.java:176: 
cannot resolve symbol
  [javadoc] symbol  : class HttpServletRequest
  [javadoc] location: class app.LogonForm
  [javadoc] Building tree for all the packages and classes...
  [javadoc] Building index for all the packages and classes...
  [javadoc]                                  HttpServletRequest request) {
  [javadoc]                                  ^
  [javadoc] Building index for all classes...
  [javadoc] 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/src/java/app/LogonAction.java:97: 
warning - @returns is an unknown tag.
  [javadoc] Generating 
/var/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/logon/WEB-INF/doc/api/stylesheet.css...
  [javadoc] 11 warnings

project:

dist:
      [jar] Building jar: /projects/lib/blank.jar
      [war] Building war: /projects/lib/blank.war
      [war] Warning: selected war files include a WEB-INF/web.xml which will be 
ignored (please use webxml attribute to war task)

all:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 11 seconds
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Joe Germuska wrote:
I am trying to work thru some examples and when I get to the part 
where I need to get ANT to build the project, ANT gives me this error:

package javax.servlet does not exist


So you're trying to build Struts source code with ANT?  Have you got 
"servlet.jar" defined correctly in a copy of "build.properties" in the 
same directory where build.xml sits?  ANT doesn't use your classpath.

If you haven't edited build.properties, there should be a sample file (I 
haven't worked with a source distribution for a while, but there's a 
build.properties.sample in the CVS repository).  There are lots of other 
properties you have to define in order to make the build work.

I hope this isn't wildly inappropriate for source distributions; it's 
how things work when trying to build from CVS.

Hope that helps.
    Joe
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