Help Package Servlet Error

[Michele Smith]

Hello I inherited a project from someone else. Their naming convention provides for all the servlets to be organized under a package.

When I remove the "package language" all I have is this:

//package bcc.pages;
/* STEP 1. 
   Handle the incoming request from the client
 */
 
// Request parsing using the FileUpload lib from Jakarta Commons
// http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/
 
// Create a factory for disk-based file items  
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
 
// Create a new file upload handler
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
upload.setSizeMax(1000000000);
 
// Parse the request into a list of DiskFileItems
List items = upload.parseRequest(request);
 
// The fields we will need for the API request
String videoName = "";
String videoDescription = "";
File videoFile = null;
String videoFilename = "";
long videoMaxSize = 0;

On the line referring to the DiskFileItemFactory Item from above, the servlet has a red X beside it and it also says when you hover above that, "syntax error on tokens, delete these tokens".

I am not sure what I should do.

Can anyone shed some light for me?

Thanks,
Midani

[Rob Spoor]

Why did you remove the package structure? It's a very good practice to put every class inside a package. The only exceptions I make are small classes that I mostly use for quickly testing something and discard within an hour or so.

[Michele Smith]

I haven't exactly removed it, I just noticed that when I deleted that line there weren't as many errors. I can certainly put it back in but I will have lots more errors.

[Paul Clapham]

Most of the errors are going to be telling you about lines of code which should be inside a class. Which is every single line of code which you posted there. If you'll remember back to when you were learning basic Java, you should remember that a Java class starts with code looking something like this:

public class RocketShip {

And yes, servlets are required to be in a package. But the package declaration isn't the source of your error messages.

[Michele Smith]

Thanks.