Cannot be resolved to a type

Question

Hello everybody,
An error occurred while executing these codes
<%@page import="examples.simple.ActiveClass" %>
try
String userId=request.getParameter("userID");
String activateCode=request.getParameter("activationCode");
ActiveClass object=new ActiveClass();
String status=object.Activate(userId);
if(status.equals("success"))
ok
catch(Exception e)
The error displayed was:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:
An error occurred at line: 25 in the jsp file: /simple/activeAccount.jsp
ActiveClass cannot be resolved to a type
22: String userId=request.getParameter("userID");
23: String activateCode=request.getParameter("activationCode");
24:
25: ActiveClass object=new ActiveClass();
26: String status=object.Activate(userId);
27:
28: if(status.equals("success"))
Can anyone help me out please?

Answer 1

* ActiveClass.java
* Created on August 31, 2007, 3:04 PM
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* and open the template in the editor.
package examples.simple;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import examples.sql.connect;
* @author Administrator
public class ActiveClass {
int userId;
Connection con=null;
/** Creates a new instance of ActiveClass */
public ActiveClass() {
public String Activate(String userId)
this.userId=Integer.parseInt(userId);
try
connect conn=new connect();
con=conn.createConnection();
Statement stmt=con.createStatement();
String sql="UPDATE registered_user SET user_privileges='Y' WHERE user_id = "+this.userId;
if(stmt.executeUpdate(sql)==1)
return "success";
else
return "failure";
catch (SQLException ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
return "failure";
}