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#1 2009-08-26 00:25:12

stevesutt89
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From: Newcastle Australia
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Tomcat: setting CLASSPATH for javax.servlet.*

I've been trying to get tomcat working for sometime now without avail.

I've written a class which uses the import statements

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

these cause the compiler to throw the error:

package javax.servlet does not exist

so i tried adding the lib directory from tomcat to CLASSPATH using:

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/opt/tomcat/common/lib

but i'm still getting the same compiler error.

What am i doing wrong? Do i need to have java1.5 installed to make this work or something?

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#2 2009-08-27 08:18:04

stevesutt89
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From: Newcastle Australia
Registered: 2007-10-30
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Re: Tomcat: setting CLASSPATH for javax.servlet.*

Ah, alas, noob error.

What I needed to do was set CLASSPATH to the actual .jar

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/opt/tomcat/common/lib/servlet-api.jar

add that into your .bashrc and you're as right as rain...I think

Last edited by stevesutt89 (2009-08-27 08:19:02)

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