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I have j2sdk1.4.0beta3 and tomcat 3.2 installed on my windows xp home edition machine. I have followed the instruction of puting servlet.jar from the tomcat library to my classpath, but still get problem compile my servlet. The package javax.servlet.* and javax.servlet.http.* is still not recognized. My JAVA_HOME is point to the j2sdk1.4.0 installation. What else is missing?

Any help is highly appreciated.
 
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Since the servlet API is a standard extension, the jar file should go in wherever Java 1.4 keeps standard extensions.
Personally, I have converted to the ANT utility for development because you can exactly specify the classpath to the compiler instead of depending on the system environment settings.
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Thanks for your reply. I am very new to this, how do one use the Ant utitlity? Do I have to set up some parameter somewhere?
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Set your class path to the Servlet Jar and dont for get to add this ..
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Hope that helps
 
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Mercery_Steel;
Thanks very much.
In my classpath, the first bit is a .; followed that is the path to the various lib files. I just realized that I had j2sdk1.4beta-3 and Jbuilder5 and tomcat3.2 installed on the computer. The Jbuilder5 is jdk1.3, I wonder if that is the problem. Can you help?
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The ANT utility is a bit hard to get started with but study will pay off. There is a rather complete set of documentation with the download.
You can get it at jakarta.apache.org.
ANT works entirely from a build.xml file that specifies environment variables and related parameters that can override your classpath settings. This makes it much easier to keep your classpath simple - particularly with an environment like yours having multiple JDKs installed.
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Steven, I love your signature!
I agree with Bill's comments on ant. Hard to start and absolutely worth it.
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Roseanne,
Thank you

Jo Lee,
Can you post in detail what your problem is? For example could you copy and paste your error being generated and what you are using as a developement environment etc, please . A complete picture of your development environment would help in determining why you cannot compile.
Side Note: JBuilder should allow you to change your JDK. I use Visual CafeEE so unfortunately i dont know the ins and outs of JBuilder.
[ February 04, 2002: Message edited by: Steven Kors ]
 
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Thanks for all your helpful replies.
on Windows XP machine, I have j2sdk1.4.0-beta3 installed and recently installed tomcat3.2 on top of it. In addition, I have JBuilder5 installed which uses jdk1.3, I will try to find out how to change jdk in jbuilder5. And I will also start to learn ANT. Just now, I have JBuilder6 installed.
Thanks again.
Jo
 
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JBuilder lets you configure multiple JDKs.

Both 5 & 6 are the same for this topic.

Tools|Configure JDKs
Click "New" and browse to the 'home' of the jdk you want to configure.

Then on a project by project basis, go to
Project|Project Properties
and the first tab (Paths), first text box (JDK) lets you set a new JDK for that project, from the list you previously set up under the Tools|Configure JDKs menu.
 
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