Variable symbol not found

[commissioner Bright]

Hi everybody. i have run my program in jsp but i have move it to servlet. during compilation, the following error ensued

C:\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\test\WEB-INF\classes>javac Test.java
Test.java:26: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable session
location: class Test
 String name = session.getAttribute("name").toString();
                  ^
1 error

what do i do thanks

[Bear Bibeault]

Did you define a variable named session? If not, and are expecting there to be an implicit variable (like there is in JSP), then that's the issue.

You can fetch the session from the request instance.

[nirmal singh]

Have you declared session???anymore in your code