Poi installation nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question

ok I am going out of my mind with this one. I have installed
poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar
poi-contrib-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar
poi-scratchpad-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar
in the right place (in the same place that I put rowset.jar and it's working)
with jsp page:
<%@page import="org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook"%>
<%
HSSFWorkbook wb;
the error is:
test4$jsp.java [3:1] cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class HSSFWorkbook
location: package usermodel
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;
It's ok with just the import statement but I get the error above with the workbook statement. I realise it looks like it can't find it but it doesn't make sense, I've put it everywhere in the system at various stages. I doubt anyone can help but thought I'd post it here just incase.
Thanks,
Louise.

Answer 1

so you are sure you put the jars in the folder
webapps/<contextname>/WEB-INF/lib
? If so, it should work after you reboot the webserver.
One additional thing you can try is emptying the directory where your servlet container stores the generated servlets (fx. for tomcat this is the 'work' directory). I sometimes have to do this when I make changes to the system, but it's very rare.