Latest J2EE SDK and Servlets

Question

Hi,
I downloaded the latest J2EE SDK and I wish to use it in Eclipse IDE.
Trying to compile a servlets (a my own one) a javax.servlet cannot be resolved to a type error occurs (shouldn't this package be part of the Sun AS provided within the SDK?).
Searching for it in the J2EE SDK installation directory I didn't found it.
Where it is? How I can compile servlets?
Thank you.
PS: Please, don't reply me that I didn't need the J2EE SDK to compile and run servlets because I know it.
I wish to use J2EE technologies and servlets together.

Answer 1

That makes perfect sense and is quite normal.
Jar files are each individually treated as a directory containing a classpath entry, and will each have to be specified separately.
What you're expecting is similar to having every subdirectory containing within it the root of a class tree being recognised automatically by supplying a single higher level directory on the classpath.
Something like
classroots
  |--project1
  |           |--classes
  |                    |--com
  |-project2
              |-classes
                       |-comJust supplying "classroots" on your classpath will NOT cause project1/classes and project2/classes to be picked up as classpath entries (or shouldn't, there might be broken JVMs out there).