Newbie question: cannot find symbol symbol: class STRING

I've just decided to teach myself some java, and on my first try something's going wrong and I don't know what it is.
I'm currently doing this tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/learn/example1.html
and everything is good until I try to compile it and I get this error in the cmd
HelloWorldSwing.java:30: cannot find symbol
cannot find symbol
symbol: class STRING
everything has been written verbatim from the tutorial, including "import javax.swing.*;"
What's wrong with it and how do I fix it?

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