Easy Newbie question (hopefully)

Question

Hello,
I am a Lotus Notes developer and I need to write some code in Java.
I found an some open source package called Httpclient (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/2.0/index.html ) that does exactly what I want. (HTTP Post & Get inside the Notes client in the backend).
I amusing eclipse 3.0/ JDK 1.4x/ Win XP SP2
My problem is that eclipse does not seem to recognize my import statements
I have put the jar file in c:\Lotus\Notes\httpclient\
I have included the following in my Path statement in the environment variables:
C:\Lotus\Notes5;C:\j2sdk1.4.2_06;C:\Lotus\Notes5\httpclient;C:\Lotus\Notes5\httpclient\commons-httpclient-2.0.2.jar
In eclipse under Preferences\Java\Build Path\user libraries i added C:\Lotus\Notes5\httpclient\commons-httpclient-2.0.2.jar.
I copied the following example code into a new class:
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.InputStreamRequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
* Example how to use unbuffered chunk-encoded POST request.
* @author Oleg Kalnichevski
public class ChunkEncodedPost {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
if (args.length != 1) {
System.out.println("Usage: ChunkEncodedPost <file>");
System.out.println("<file> - full path to a file to be posted");
System.exit(1);
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
PostMethod httppost = new PostMethod("http://localhost:8080/httpclienttest/body");
File file = new File(args[0]);
httppost.setRequestEntity(new InputStreamRequestEntity(new FileInputStream(file)));
httppost.setContentChunked(true);
try {
client.executeMethod(httppost);
if (httppost.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
System.out.println(httppost.getResponseBodyAsString());
} else {
System.out.println("Unexpected failure: " + httppost.getStatusLine().toString());
} finally {
httppost.releaseConnection();
No matter what I do eclipse always tells me that the httpclient package cannot be resolved.
I have looked through this forum for answers plus tried to find some eclipse specific ones(not many)
I relativly sure this is a configuration issue or a code 18 but Java not being my strong suit so the answer eludes me.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated...
Karl the Notes guy......

Answer 1

So I should remove it?
Also what is the proper location within the workspace
folders to put a jar files?Pretty much whereever you want to. However, I'd suggest that you copy that jar file in the project's directory tree, not in Lotus Note's directories (it doesn't belong to Lotus Notes, but rather to your app). The master copy of it should be in something like a /jakarta/commons directory, and then copy that jar to your application's directory structure.
+(root) - your project's root folder
|--- src/java - your source code
|--- lib - external jars your app needs, including the httpclient jar