ERROR WHILE COMPLING CLIENT

Question

I am not ablr to complie client bean, i have created 2 directories beans,client under beans dir i have put home,remote,bean classes. named it as beans package. in client directory i am refering this classes by importing the beans package, but it gives error like package beans does not exist. client & beans both directory are placed in simplesessionapp directory.
error screen shot is
E:\8333\ch08\SimpleSessionApp>javac -d . client/*.java
client/SimpleSessionClient.java:3: package beans does not exist
import beans.SimpleSession;
^
client/SimpleSessionClient.java:4: package beans does not exist
import beans.SimpleSessionHome;
^
client/SimpleSessionClient.java:13: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SimpleSessionHome
location: class client.SimpleSessionClient
SimpleSessionHome home = (SimpleSessionHome) PortableRemoteObject.narro
w(ref,SimpleSessionHome.class);
^
client/SimpleSessionClient.java:13: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SimpleSessionHome
location: class client.SimpleSessionClient
SimpleSessionHome home = (SimpleSessionHome) PortableRemoteObject.narro
w(ref,SimpleSessionHome.class);
^
client/SimpleSessionClient.java:13: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SimpleSessionHome
location: class client.SimpleSessionClient
SimpleSessionHome home = (SimpleSessionHome) PortableRemoteObject.narro
w(ref,SimpleSessionHome.class);
^
client/SimpleSessionClient.java:14: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SimpleSession
location: class client.SimpleSessionClient
SimpleSession simpleSession = home.create();
^
6 errors
a
//import beans.SimpleSession;
//import beans.SimpleSessionHome;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
public class SimpleSessionClient {
public static void main(String [] args) {
   try {
         InitialContext jndiContext = new InitialContext();
         Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("ejb/beans.SimpleSession");
         SimpleSessionHome home = (SimpleSessionHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(ref,SimpleSessionHome.class);
         SimpleSession simpleSession = home.create();
        for (int i=0;i<args.length;i++) {
       String returnedString = simpleSession.getEchoString(args);
System.out.println(returnedString);
} //close for loop
}catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} //close catch
}//close main
} // close main class
help me.

Answer 1

I hope this question is not too simple. Does your CLASSPATH contain the path to the beans package .class file location, or the jar file that contains them?