Tomcat 6 - getting started

[Jack Bento]

Hi there

I'm trying to compile the BeerSelect.java at the start of HFSJ. I added tomcats bin folder to the classpath but I can't get it to find the tomcat jar

C:\Users\Public\Documents\MyProjects\beerV1>javac -classpath \apache-tomcat-6.0.26\lib\servlet-api.jar;classes:. -d classes src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java
src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java:3: package javax.servlet does not exist
import javax.servlet.*;
^

please tell me what i'm doinig wrong. Thanks!

[Christophe Verré]

I added tomcats bin folder to the classpath but I can't get it to find the tomcat jar

You need to study something about compiling classes using JAR files I also see that you are mixing colons and semi-colons to set the classpath. You either use ";" on Windows, or ":" on Unix, but not both. For the moment, you can just check this FAQ about compiling servlets.

[Jack Bento]

thanks Christophe. I knew it was a school boy error of some sort