Help Needed

[Somesh Rathi]

Hi Ranchers,
I tried to run simple program on struts as given in article in Stuts section by Thomas Paul..
I followed the following steps ( as given in tutorial)

1.Created the LoginBean.java file as follows, and compiled it.
class LoginBean {

String userType, userId ,passWord;

public LoginBean() {}

public void setParameters(HttpServletRequest request) {
userId = request.getParameter("userId");
passWord = request.getParameter("passWord");
}

public ActionErrors validate() {

if (!userId.equals(passWord)) {
ActionErrors ae = new ActionErrors();
ae.add("userId", new ActionError("error.invalid.login"));
return ae;
}

if (userId.equals("admin")) {
userType = "Adminstrator";
} else
if (userId.equals("user")) {
userType = "User";
} else {
ActionErrors ae = new ActionErrors();
ae.add("userId", new ActionError("error.invalid.login"));
return ae;
}

return null;
}

public String getUserType() {
return userType;
}

public void setUserType(String userType) {
this.userType = userType;
}
}


2.Copied class file to c:\tomcat5.0\webapps\struts\WEB-INF\classes\test\struts

3.Created the LoginAction.java as follows:-

package test.struts;

import javax.servlet.http.*;
import org.apache.struts.action.*;

public class LoginAction extends Action {

public LoginAction() {}

public ActionForward perform(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws java.io.IOException, javax.servlet.ServletException{

LoginBean lb = new LoginBean();
request.setAttribute("LoginBean", lb);
lb.setParameters(request);
ActionErrors ae = lb.validate();
request.setAttribute(Action.ERROR_KEY, ae);

if (ae == null || ae.size() == 0) {
return mapping.findForward("valid");
} else {
return mapping.findForward("invalid");
}
}
}


While compiling the LoginAction.java , i'm getting the following error.

C:\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\struts\WEB-INF\classes\test\struts\LoginAction.java:5: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class LoginBean
location: package struts
import test.struts.LoginBean;
^
C:\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\struts\WEB-INF\classes\test\struts\LoginAction.java:15: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class LoginBean
location: class test.struts.LoginAction
LoginBean lb = new LoginBean();
^
C:\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\struts\WEB-INF\classes\test\struts\LoginAction.java:15: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class LoginBean
location: class test.struts.LoginAction
LoginBean lb = new LoginBean();


Please help me in resolving error. I think it might some package error, but i couldn't find it...

Thanks in advance,
Somesh
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[Merrill Higginson]

It sounds like the problem may be that C:\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\struts\WEB-INF\classes is not in your classpath when your'e compiling. Add it to the classpath, and that should fix the error.