regarding package compilation

[Neha Aggarwal]

i am using com.example.we and com.example.model packages. First one contains BeerSelect.java and second one has BeerExpert.java
and i have to use BeerExpert.java in BeerSelect. Both are in tomcat but compilation of BeerSelect.java is prompting error on import of com.example.model and thus code is prompting obvious errors. Here are the files

BeerSelect.java

package com.example.web;

import com.example.model.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class BeerSelect extends HttpServlet
{
	public void doPost(HttpServletResponse response, HttpServletRequest request)throws IOException, ServletException
	  {
		  String c = request.getParameter("color");
		  BeerExpert be = new BeerExpert();
		  List result = be.getBrands(c);

		  response.setContentType("text/html");
		  PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
		  out.println("Beer Selection Advice");

		  Iterator it = result.iterator();
          while(it.hasNext())
          {
			  out.print("<br>try:" + it.next());
			  }

		  }

	}

BeerExpert.java

package com.example.model;
import java.util.*;


public class BeerExpert
{
  public List getBrands(String color)throws Exception
  {
    List brands = new ArrayList();
    if(color.equals("amber"))
     {
       brands.add("Jack Amber");
       brands.add("Red Moose");
     }
    else
    {
      brands.add("Jail Pale Ale");
      brands.add("Gout Scout");
    }
    return(brands);
  }
}

Please help me with this.
thanks

[John de Michele]

Neha:

Please use code tags.

John.

[David Newton]

Thanks for adding the code tags :)

They might be deployed to Tomcat, but the classpath used for the compilation itself isn't correct. How are you compiling the classes?

[Neha Aggarwal]

  C:/jdk1.6.0_02 javac - classpath \tomcat\common\lib\servlet-api.jar -d \tomcat\webapps\test-app\web-inf\classes  BeerSelect.java 

this is what i am using to compile BeerSelect.java as mentioned above. And BeerSelect is using BeerExpert. I have kept both the files in jdk/bin folder.

Please tell me if i am making any mistake because i think i am but really cannot figure out what is it

[David Newton]

You need to have the classes directory on the classpath if that's where you're expecting your compiled classes to be.

[Neha Aggarwal]

thanks sir it worked

[David Newton]

Glad to hear you got it figured out :)

[Neha Aggarwal]

What could be the reason of tomcat startup failure?

[David Newton]

Anything.

Please start a new thread for new questions; Tomcat questions should go in the Tomcat forum. Thanks!