Why i am unable to compile this .java

Question

Hi
I get the Error messages
C:\kk>javac BICDownloader.java
BICDownloader.java:61: cannot find symbol
symbol : method openConnection()
location: class java.lang.String
URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
^
BICDownloader.java:64: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SSLTunnelSocketFactory
location: class BICDownloader
(new SSLTunnelSocketFactory(proxyHost,proxyPort));
^
Note: BICDownloader.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
2 errors
When trying to compile
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
import javax.net.*;
import javax.net.ssl.*;
import javax.net.SocketFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Header;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpMethodParams;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;
* Created on Mar 2, 2007
* S.W.I.F.T. s.c.r.l.
public class BICDownloader {
private final static String proxyHost = "isln616";
private final static String proxyPort = "9090";
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          int exitcode = 0;
          int statusCode;
   String url = "https://www2.swift.com/bicdownload/bicdownloader?"
                          + "action=getfile&productline=bicdir&product=bicdb&content=delta&format=txt";
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
         GetMethod method = new GetMethod(url);
         // Provide custom retry handler if required
         method.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER,
                                          new DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler(3, false));
     System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
      //System.setProperty("https.proxyHost",proxyHost);
      //System.setProperty("https.proxyPort",proxyPort);
               URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
      if(urlc instanceof com.sun.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection){
                    ((com.sun.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection)urlc).setSSLSocketFactory
                         (new SSLTunnelSocketFactory(proxyHost,proxyPort));
         try {
              // We strongly recommend obfuscation of password  and restricted access to its storage
              Properties prop = new Properties();
              InputStream fis = (InputStream)new FileInputStream("c:/KK/bicdownload.prop");
              prop.load(fis);
              // Set Credentials
              UsernamePasswordCredentials credentials;
              credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(prop.getProperty("username"),
                                                              prop.getProperty("password"));
              client.getState().setCredentials(new AuthScope("www2.swift.com", 443), credentials);
              // Executing the method.
              statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);
              if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                   // Handling HTTP error 404 and 500 not covered in this example
                   // All http error cause in this example exit with status 1.
                   System.err.println("Method failed: " + method.getStatusLine()+ "\n" +
                                     method.getResponseBodyAsString());
                   System.out.println(method.getRequestCharSet() + "\n" + method.getRequestHeader("").toString());
                   exitcode = 1;
              else {
                   //Get the file size from the response body and do something with it
                   Header[] contlen = method.getResponseHeaders("Content-Length");
                   if (contlen.length != 0) {
                        StringTokenizer stone = new StringTokenizer(contlen[0].getValue(), "=");
                        int size = new Integer(stone.nextToken()).intValue();
                        // Do something with the file size
                        System.out.println("File size is: " + size);
                   // Get the filename from the response body.
                   InputStream is = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();
                   Header[] contdisp = method.getResponseHeaders("Content-Disposition");
                   String filename = null;
                   StringTokenizer sttwo = new StringTokenizer(contdisp[0].getValue(), "=");
                   while (sttwo.hasMoreTokens()) filename = sttwo.nextToken();
                   // Hardcoded disk and directory path are indicative
                   FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("c:/kk/" + filename);
                   byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
                   int count = is.read(buffer);
                   while (count != -1) {
                        fos.write(buffer, 0, count);
                        count = is.read(buffer);
                   fos.flush();
                   fos.close();
                   is.close();
         } catch (HttpException e) {
              exitcode = 2;
              System.err.println("Fatal HTTP Error: " + e.getMessage());
              e.printStackTrace();
         } catch (IOException e) {
              exitcode = 3;
              System.err.println("Fatal I/O error: " + e.getMessage());
              e.printStackTrace();
         } finally {
              // Release the connection.
              method.releaseConnection();
              System.exit(exitcode);
         System.out.println("Dowload done");
}

Answer 1

Look at the Classnames it's complaining about, then look at your import list.
That is the reason, of course.
Edit: The second error has to do with the Classes. The first one, is as pointed out below,
is because how you declared and defined your "url" variable, which should be URL and not String.