Javax.servlet does not exist (please help)

Question

i was going to try my first example nad follwing head first
package com.myweb.trying;
import  javax.servlet.*;
import  javax.servlet.http.*;
import  java.io.*;
public class Serv1 extends HttpServlet {
     public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)throws IOException,ServletException{
          response.setContentType("text/html");
          PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
          out.println("Shutup and see this");
          String c = request.getParameter("color");
          out.println("<be>the color selected is"+ c);
}on giving the command
C:\project1\app1>javac -classpath c:\Tomcat6\lib\servlet-api.jar:classes:. -d classes src\com\myweb\trying\Serv1.java
this is what i got
src\com\myweb\trying\Serv1.java:3: package javax.servlet does not exist
import  javax.servlet.*;
^
src\com\myweb\trying\Serv1.java:4: package javax.servlet.http does not exist
import  javax.servlet.http.*;
^
src\com\myweb\trying\Serv1.java:7: cannot find symbol
symbol: class HttpServlet
public class Serv1 extends HttpServlet {
                          ^
src\com\myweb\trying\Serv1.java:8: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class HttpServletRequest
location: class com.myweb.trying.Serv1
       public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse respon
se)throws IOException,ServletException{
                          ^
src\com\myweb\trying\Serv1.java:8: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class HttpServletResponse
location: class com.myweb.trying.Serv1
       public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse respon
se)throws IOException,ServletException{
                                                     ^
src\com\myweb\trying\Serv1.java:8: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class ServletException
location: class com.myweb.trying.Serv1
       public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse respon
se)throws IOException,ServletException{
                     ^
6 errors please help what im doing wrong
i have latest ver.6 of tomcat installed

Answer 1

exchange the : in your classpath with a ;
windows, in its infinite wisdom, uses a semi-colon as the path separator. the colon is what you would use if you were on unix, macosx, or linux.
== eldrich