Javax.mail. package not recognised

Question

Hi people!!!!
Please help me out as I am new to j2ee/JavaMail
I have the j2ee sdk 1.4 installed as well as j2se1.4.2/netbeans conbundle.
I would create to a simple application that sends an email. However, the compiler doesn't recognise the javax.mail.* and javax.mail.internet.* packages.
When I type j2ee -verbose at the command prompt it states that it doesn't recognise the command.
I have set my environment variables as follows:
J2EE_PATH:      C:\Sun\AppServer\
J2EE_HOME:     C:\Sun\AppServer\
JAVA_HOME:     C:\Program Files\j2sdk_nb\j2sdk1.4.2\
System Variables:
CLASSPATH:     C:\Sun\AppServer\lib\j2ee.jar
PATH:     %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\MSSQL7\BINN;C:\Program Files\j2sdk_nb\j2sdk1.4.2\bin\;C:\TOOLS\Tomcat4.1\webapps\Intranet\WEB-INF\classes\;C:\Sun\AppServer\bin\
Do perhaps know what I have not done correctly....
Thanks, any assistance will be much appreciated.
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Regards
Ushanta

Answer 1

Hey I have added the mail.jar file to my classpath and I don't get this error any more.... Unfortunately, though I get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError Exception in thread 'main'
I do have a main method, here is my code:
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.*;
* @author user
public class SimpleSender {
/** Creates a new instance of SimpleSender */
public SimpleSender() {
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (args.length != 3) {
System.out.println("ERROR");
System.exit(1);
String host = args[0];
String to = args[1];
String from = args[2];
String contentType = "text/html";
Properties props = System.getProperties();
props.put("mail.smtp.host", args[0]);
try{
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setSubject("Hello");
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to));
String text = "<h1>testing email</h1>";
message.setContent(text, "text/html");
Transport.send(message);
} catch (MessagingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}