The good old packages and beans problem

Question

I have a JSP which uses a JavaBean whos class file is in the same directory as the JSP. Assuming the bean is called HelloBean, what should I do?
lets say this is HelloBean.java
package xxx; //what should xxx be?
public class HelloBean implements java.io.Serializeable  {
public String sayIt () {
return "hello";
}and for the jsp,
<jsp:useBean id="hello" scope="session" class= />
what should the class be to fit in with the above code?

Answer 1

first, you should not put the bean in the same directory as the JSP.
I use two source trees.
/src/...
/web/...
The src contains java sources and is compiled to /WEB-INF/classes, the second contains anything associated with HTML and JSP (images, etc) and is COPIED to the root of the webapp directory structure. I do this using ANT. Furthermore I have a etc (for web.xml) and a lib (for jars). ANT makes sure every goes where it needs to go.
Usually I use the rule that JSPs associated with a servlet or bean are in the same path, so:
/src/com/sun/myapp/Thing.java
and
/web/com/sun/myapp/Thing1.jsp
This works fine for me.