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Genadinik
Genadinik

Reputation: 18629

Javac erroring out when compiling Servlet libraries

I am using ubuntu and I have set my paths to be the following:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_24
export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/tomcat/lib
export JAVA_HOME

I thought that would put the servlet libraries in the compile path, but I am still getting compile errors like this:

package javax.servlet does not exist
    [javac] import javax.servlet.ServletException;

Any ideas how to fix this or what I am doing wrong? The general Java libraries seem to be working fine.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 426

Answers (1)

Rob Hruska
Rob Hruska

Reputation: 120286

With jar files, simply specifying a directory containing jar files will not work. You have two options:

  1. Specify each jar file individually on the CLASSPATH:

    export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/tomcat/lib/servlet-impl.jar:/path/to/another.jar

  2. Since you're using Java 6, you should be able to use wildcards (to include all jars in a directory):

    export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/tomcat/lib/*

Upvotes: 7

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