Cannot find javax.servlet in J2EE

I am learning about servlet programming. I am using JBuilder-student edition. I downloaded J2EE. I changed the project properties in JBuilder to use the java.exe in J2EE, but when I try importing javax.servlet or the like, it does not show that javax has such a package. Please help. I am working on this project with a professor, and I have to show some work done soon! I cannot get started with my work unless I get javax.servlet.
I hope somebody can help me.
Thank you,

It seemed that the installation did not unzip the j2ee.WAR, which contains the servlet stuff.(or is it not supposed to?) I then added the folder j2ee to the class path, and it works. I am dumb enough not to understand how it worked, could someone explain please.
Thank you

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Cannot find javax.servlet package

I have just downloaded and installed the latest JEE SDK having installed Tomcat on a Linux box so that I can start getting to know JSP.
I am following an example in a book I have for this Servlet...
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import java.io.IOException;
public class BasicServlet extends HttpServlet {
     public void doGet (HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
          throws IOException {
          ServletOutputStream out = res.getOutputStream();
          res.setContentType("text/html");
          out.println("<html><head><title>Basic Servlet</title></head>");
          out.println("<body>Hello World</body></html>");
I am using Textpad to write and compile my java and when I try to compile I get errors basically saying that it cannot find the first 2 packages I am trying to import (it manages to find the IOException fine)
Any ideas why? I suspect that the servlet package is not in the classpath but I do no know where the package is in order to add it to my class path.
many thanks

I have just downloaded and installed the latest JEE
SDK having installed Tomcat on a Linux box so that I
can start getting to know JSP.
I am following an example in a book I have for this
Servlet...
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import java.io.IOException;
public class BasicServlet extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet (HttpServletRequest req,
, HttpServletResponse res)
          throws IOException {
          ServletOutputStream out = res.getOutputStream();
          res.setContentType("text/html");
out.println("<html><head><title>Basic
ic Servlet</title></head>");
          out.println("<body>Hello World</body></html>");
I am using Textpad to write and compile my java and
when I try to compile I get errors basically saying
that it cannot find the first 2 packages I am trying
to import (it manages to find the IOException fine)
Any ideas why? I suspect that the servlet package is
not in the classpath but I do no know where the
package is in order to add it to my class path.
many thanksHave u included your servletapi.jar into classpath
If u havnt . set classpath to point to servletapi.jar
if it helps .. release dukes.
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http://www.jyog.com

I cannot find javax.servlet package in j2sdk-1.4.0-beta3

I just download and install j2sdk-1.4.0-beta3 and progam a very simple program use import javax.servlet.* and compile it, there is a mistake:
package javax.servlet.* does not exist
And I check the doc of j2sdk-1.4.0-beta3,I also can not find package javax.servlet.So where could I find this package? Need I configure somewhere or download another products?

Hi,
You can go to http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html,
download the servlet 2.3 class files, add the zip file to the classpath.

Javac cannot find javax.servlet.*; package

getting an error when I try to compile code that contains the line:
import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import javax .servlet.*;
Yet, other classes in javax can be seen by the compiler such as javax.swing.*;

I had to download the servlet specification from sun as it wasn't in my jdk (I prefer stripped down versions). Then I placed the jar file in my classpath.
Alternatively, if you are already running tomcat you can point to the servlet api jar file in the lib directory.
And a clear indication that the person stumbling like
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Cann't find javax.servlet.*

Hi there!
I cann't compile a servlet by means of ant...
It cann't find javax.servlet.*
I've searched for it in jakarta-tomcat-5.0.18 directory but didn't find anything...
Where is it situated?

It should be in %CATALINA_HOME%/common/lib/servlet.jar or %CATALINA_HOME%/common/lib/j2ee.jar

Getting javac to find javax.servlet package

Hey all. I'm trying to get Servlets to run on my computer. I'm using jdk1.4, it didn't have the javax.servlet package to start off with. I downloaded jsdk2.0, which includes the javax.servlet package. I can't get the javac compiler to find these classes no matter what I do, I copied the entire javax/servlet folder into the jdk1.4/src.zip file that seemed to have all the other import files, I copied the jsdk.jar file into jdk1.4/lib/ folder, that didn't work either. In my batch file that sets the path for jdk, I added set classpath = c:\jsdk2.0\lib\jsdk.jar and that didn't work. I really can't seem to get javac to find these classes. Any help is greatly appreciated!

The above advice is incorrect and can lead you to many problems.
You should have nothing in your CLASSPATH environment variable immediately after installing J2SDK 1.4.1.
You then have to install the Servlet API by pointing your CLASSPATH env. var. to it. To do this depends on the version of the Servlet spec. that you have as some of the olders ones were distributed as jar files, and the latest I believe is a set of classes to be extracted.
At the end of the day, you must point your CLASSPATH to the Servlet API. Read up on how to set the CLASSPATH. Also, don't forget to include the current working directory (.) in your CLASSPATH after manually setting it.
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Tony Morris
Software Engineer, IBM
Gold Coast, Australia

Cannot find javax.ejb.CreateException fix classpath

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Tomcat 5 can�t find javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

Hi.
I don�t know if this is a simple question or not, but i didn�t find anything solving this problem and
i�m new to tomcat......
I�m trying to deploy my web application in my system. (Windows XP , j2sdk1.4.2_02, jakarta Tomcat 5, jakarta struts 1.1 and jakarta taglibs 1.1).No problems while compiling the .java classes and checked all the .jar files that my application needs to work (or that is what I think). I expand my .war file at /webapps on tomcat directory and startup Tomcat. Tomcat starts up but while starting I get the following errors...
17-feb-2004 17:58:50 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
17-feb-2004 17:58:51 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 4948 ms
17-feb-2004 17:58:51 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
17-feb-2004 17:58:51 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.0.18
17-feb-2004 17:58:51 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
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INFO: Create Host deployer for direct deployment ( non-jmx )
17-feb-2004 17:58:51 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
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17-feb-2004 17:58:55 org.apache.commons.digester.Digester endElement
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java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
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     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:252)
     at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256)
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     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
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     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567)
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     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472)
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     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:394)
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After more and more messages..... here it comes my application (MapasRuido)...which needs javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet and compiled ok at compiling time!
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tomcat�s web applications servlets-examples and tomcat-docs work fine, but my application doesn�t. Is there any relation between those errors? any idea about what happens?
Thank you in advance.

"...The CLASSPATH is ignored by Tomcat, of course. AND javac. AND java. AND Eclipse. AND NetBeans. AND JBuilder. And just about everything else in the Java universe..."
What I mean by this, of course, is that each of these requires you to set the CLASSPATH in the way they expect. None of them even looks for a system environment variable named CLASSPATH. You can waste a lot of time thinking that your CLASSPATH is "all set", but it's not.
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(1) All the JARs in TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib,
(2) All the JARs in your WEB-INF/lib,
(3) All the .class files in your WEB-INF/classes
That's it. (Maybe one or two others, but those are the important ones.)
Eclipse and NetBeans have their own way to set CLASSPATH for each project. You'll have to learn how for those IDEs.
The CLASSPATH is still vitally important. The system environment variable just isn't part of it. - MOD

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May I know how am I going to revive it back??
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^
1 error
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Cannot find javax.jws.WebService

Hello
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I'm using this way...
If you installed Java 1.5, then make JRE directory like below.
%JAVA_HOME\jre\lib
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_04\lib
Copy all JWSDP 1.6's jar file to JRE\lib\ext folder..
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Cannot import javax.servlet onto classpath

Hi guys, newbie question.
Im using jedit on linux; compiling with j2sdk1.4.2_04 but it will not pick up the javax.serlet
classes!! Is there an add on I need to download to develop j2ee stuff, as I thought j2sdk1.4.2_04 was all that was required.
Thanks in advance

Wrong. You need a JAR that has the javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http packages, and they don't come with the J2SE.
If you want to run servlets/JSPs, you must have a servlet/JSP engine. If you already have one, root around for the servlet JAR. If don't, download Tomcat. It's Sun's reference implementation for the servlet/JSP specifications. The servlet JAR will be in the TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib directory.

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oh i see. the api.jar has the indicate the path to the servlet package.
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Hi,
I am trying to run an example servlet the code is as follows:
Example.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<Title>Example</Title>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form action="\example\classes.ShowParameters" method="post">
Name: <input type="textbox" size="10">
Number:<input type="textbox" size="10">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
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public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println( "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FDF5E6\">\n" +
"<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>" + "</H1>\n" +
"<TABLE BORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER>\n" +
"<TR BGCOLOR=\"#FFAD00\">\n" +
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if (paramValues.length == 1) {
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if (paramValue.length() == 0)
out.print("<I>No Value</I>");
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out.println("><LI>" + paramValues);
out.println("</UL>");
out.println("</TABLE>\n</BODY></HTML>");
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throws ServletException, IOException {
doGet(request, response);
example.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
<display-name>Welcome </display-name>
<description>
Welcome to Pc Tune Up
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<servlet>
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<servlet-class>example.ShowParameters</servlet-class>
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<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>example.ShowParameters</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Example.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
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and the servlet is sucessfully compiled..
and i put the classes in the ROOT directory..
The structure is as follows:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes\example\ShowParameters.class
and also the java files in the same folder
and i created the jar file and placed it in the lib folder of ROOT.
but when i am trying to run the html file and submit the form it says HTTP:404 FILE NOT FOUND ERROR..
Can anyone please help me where i am going wrong....
Thanks & Regards
Lavanya

[<form action="\example\classes.ShowParameters" method="post">[
this is wrong
change it to
<form action="/Example.html" method="post">
beacause you have specified
<url-pattern>/Example.html</url-pattern>
this is how you map a request to a servlet
its better if you chage it like this
<form action="/Example." method="post">
In web.xml
<url-pattern>/Example</url-pattern>

Cannot Import javax.servlet.* and javax.servlet.http.*

Hello,
I am a University Student and now doing a project using Servlet and JSP
I have installed WinXP and Tomcat 5.0 on my computer
When I compile the servlet , there are error messages "package javax.servlet does not exist" and "package javax.servlet.http does not exist" coming out.
I have set the classpath already
i.e. %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\jsp-api.jar
( Of course "%CATALINA_HOME%" = my folder that install the Tomcat )
Can Anybody Explain what is happening and suggest a solution to me?
Please give a hand.

When you ran that command, what happened? Let javac.exe tell you the right answer.
I'd advise two things:
(1) Installing any s'ware in a directory whose name contains spaces (e.g., "Apache Software Foundation" or "Tomcat 5.0") is a very bad idea, IMO. I'd reinstall to a new directory.
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