Getting Javax. packages installed!?!?

[Declan Conlon]

Ok I'll be blunt, I've been working all day at this and I can't get the javax.servlet and javax.httpservlet libraries installed. I don't know what I need to do to get javac to see them. It would be great if and help could be given in a step by step manner suitble for the dumbest people. Why the web has nothing on how to install java library functions I'll never know.

[trevershick]

I assume that you just need them for compilation. The servlet classes alone won't run as a web server...
Anyhow...
Download the servlet-2_2b.zip file from www.javasoft.com
extract the file to c:\servlet-2.2b directory
before a compile
SET CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;c:\servlet-2.2b\servlet.jar
-try-
javap javax.servlet.Servlet
-hopefully you'll see some output

javac www.MyClass

[Declan Conlon]

Do you know how to do it in liunx?

[William Brogden]

Read the file on how classes are found - its in the tooldocs section of your Java docs files.
Since the servlet library is a standard extension, the compiler can find them automatically if the jar file is in the proper directory:
JAVA_HOME\jre\lib\ext
Bill

[Declan Conlon]

Thank you very much, you just said something I couldn't find in any of the documentation.