Can't Import (or find) Swing

Question

G'day
Any help would be appreciated. I've looked all over Sun's docs, tutorials, etc., and haven't been able to find the answer to this.
Environment:
O/S: Red Hat 9 Linux
Java : j2sdk1.4.2_03
A minimal dialog box application, which starts out like this:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Dbox {
produces the following compiler error message
$ javac Dbox.java
Dbox.java:14: Can't find default package `javax.swing'. Check the CLASSPATH environment variable and the access to the archives
It can find java.awt just fine. It can't find javax.swing. Other stuff seems to work OK. The j2sdk installs in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03. I've run "jar tf" on all of the likely-looking jar files I can find there, and don't see
"swing" anywhere.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is one way that works, compile
OK ... after installing j2sdk1.4.2_03 on Red Hat 9, this seems to make things work:
First, link the new stuff into /usr/bin ...
cd /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/appletviewer appletviewer
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/extcheck extcheck
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/HtmlConverter HtmlConverter
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/idlj idlj
mv jar jar~
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/jar jar
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/jarsigner jarsigner
mv java java~
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/java java
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/javac javac
mv javac javac~
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/javac javac
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/javadoc javadoc
rm javah
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/javah javah
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/javap javap
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/java-rmi.cgi java-rmi.cgi
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/jdb jdb
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/keytool keytool
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/kinit kinit
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/klist klist
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/ktab ktab
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/native2ascii native2ascii
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/orbd orbd
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/policytool policytool
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/rmic rmic
mv rmic rmic~
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/rmic rmic
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/rmid rmid
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/rmiregistry rmiregistry
mv rmiregistry rmiregistry~
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/rmiregistry rmiregistry
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/serialver serialserver
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/servertool servertool
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin/tnameserv tnameserv
Then set CLASSPATH; this can be done in /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc or explicitly:
export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/lib/