Hi Martin, Thanks for your reply.
My Apache Tomcat version is 5.5.27. The servlet-api.jar is in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. I included it in the classpath and now the code compiles without any errors. I am including my web.xml file below. Please let me know what else I need to do to get the servlet to work, and how to access it later on. Thanks again. Anand -- web.xml -- <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"; version="2.4"> <display-name>Welcome to Tomcat</display-name> <description> Welcome to Tomcat </description> <!-- JSPC servlet mappings start --> <servlet> <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/index.jsp</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <!-- JSPC servlet mappings end --> </web-app> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > is servlet-api.jar on classpath > usually located at $CATALINA_HOME\lib\servlet-api.jar > > what does your web-inf/web.xml look like? > Martin Gainty > ______________________________________________ > Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité > > Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene > Empfaenger sein, so bitten wir hoeflich um eine Mitteilung. Jede unbefugte > Weiterleitung oder Fertigung einer Kopie ist unzulaessig. Diese Nachricht > dient lediglich dem Austausch von Informationen und entfaltet keine > rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Aufgrund der leichten Manipulierbarkeit von > E-Mails koennen wir keine Haftung fuer den Inhalt uebernehmen. > Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le > destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire > informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la copie > de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et n'aura > pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que les email > peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter > aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > > > > > > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 04:25:36 -0700 > > Subject: Servlet Error > > From: listan...@gmail.com > > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am new to Tomcat/Apache, and have just about started to learn > JSP/Servlets > > as well. I just wrote my first Hello world servlet (code below) and > tried > > to run it, but got several errors. Here's exactly what I did: > > 1. I wrote "Hello.java" (code below) and put it in /webapps/ROOT > directory > > 2. I tried to compile it ("javac Hello.java") but got errors. (see below) > > > > I would appreciate if someone would tell me what I am missing. Also, > after > > the servlet compiles, do I need to put it in WEB-INF? > > > > Just for the records, I try to access the servlet using > > http://localhost:8080/Hello and I am using Java version 1.6. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > ---CODE--- > > import java.io.*; > > import javax.servlet.*; > > import javax.servlet.http.*; > > > > public class Hello extends HttpServlet { > > public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, > > HttpServletResponse response) > > throws ServletException, IOException { > > PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); > > out.println("Hello World"); > > } > > } > > > > > > > > --ERRORS-- > > > > Hello.java:2: package javax.servlet does not exist > > import javax.servlet.*; > > ^ > > Hello.java:3: package javax.servlet.http does not exist > > import javax.servlet.http.*; > > ^ > > Hello.java:5: cannot find symbol > > symbol: class HttpServlet > > public class Hello extends HttpServlet { > > ^ > > Hello.java:6: cannot find symbol > > symbol : class HttpServletRequest > > location: class Hello > > public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, > > ^ > > Hello.java:7: cannot find symbol > > symbol : class HttpServletResponse > > location: class Hello > > HttpServletResponse response) > > ^ > > Hello.java:8: cannot find symbol > > symbol : class ServletException > > location: class Hello > > throws ServletException, IOException { > > ^ > > 6 errors > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. > > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 >
