Servlet package not found error

Question

I am getting the following error while running my servlet .I have servlet.jar,servlet-api.jar,servlet-2_5-api in my lib directory.Do i have to give path for .jar files??
C:\j2sdk1.4.2_02\bin>javac PostParameterServlet.java
PostParameterServlet.java:3: package javax.servlet does not exist
import javax.servlet.*;
^
PostParameterServlet.java:6: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class GenericServlet
location: class PostParameterServlet
class  PostParameterServlet extends GenericServlet
                                    ^
PostParameterServlet.java:8: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class ServletRequest
location: class PostParameterServlet
        public void service(ServletRequest req,ServletResponse res)throws ServletException,
IOException
                            ^
PostParameterServlet.java:8: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class ServletResponse
location: class PostParameterServlet
        public void service(ServletRequest req,ServletResponse res)throws ServletException,
IOException
                                               ^
PostParameterServlet.java:8: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class ServletException
location: class PostParameterServlet
        public void service(ServletRequest req,ServletResponse res)throws ServletException,
IOException
                                                                          ^
5 errorsand here my code
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
class  PostParameterServlet extends GenericServlet
     public void service(ServletRequest req,ServletResponse res)throws ServletException,IOException
          PrintWriter pw=res.getWriter();
          Enumeration e=req.getParameterNames();
          while(e.hasMoreElements())
               String pname=(String)e.nextElement();
               pw.print(pname +"=");
               String pvalue=req.getParameter(pname);
               pw.println(pvalue);
          pw.close();
}

Answer 1

Sun_Rockz wrote:
C:\Suraj\jspproj\beerV1>javac -classpath "c:\apache software foundation\tomcat 5
.5\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;classes" -d classes src\com\example\web\beerselect
.javaYou've quoted the classpath the wrong way. Only quote the separate paths, not all paths together, it would be seen as a single path otherwise.