Java under Fedora

[Timothy Murphy]

Patrick Kobly wrote:

> Add the servlet API JAR to the classpath (with -cp or CLASSPATH env
> variable).  Or use Maven to build your projects and define the
> dependencies appropriately.

>> When I run "javac HelloWorld.java" I get a number of errors like
>>   HelloWorld.java:12: error: cannot find symbol
>>     public class HelloWorld extends HttpServlet {
>> 
>> I see that this class is in /usr/share/java/tomcat-servlet-api.jar
>> and if I expand this jar file in the current directory
>> then the compilation succeeds.
>> But it is not sufficient to copy the jar file to the current directory
>> (or to put a link to it in /usr/lib/java/ .)> 


> Add the servlet API JAR to the classpath (with -cp or CLASSPATH env
> variable).  Or use Maven to build your projects and define the
> dependencies appropriately.

Thanks very much,
  export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/usr/share/java/tomcat-servlet-api.jar
did the trick.
I was assuming (rather stupidly) that it was sufficient
to put the directory into the classpath.

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland