compile error - servlet not found

[hugh]

Please can somebody help. I've been batteling with this for days,

I want to run my first servlet program so I have downloaded Tomcat (works fine). Then I wrote a simple .java file. When I try to compile this I get a compile error saying that packets javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http do not exist. I've looked over some old posts on this forum and they say I should have a servlet.jar file but when I look in my JDK 1.4 I only find the following .jar files

imqservlet.jar
jnlp-servlet.jar

the java website seems to say that jnlp-servlet is the correct file. If so, what do I do now ? I've tried putting jnlp-servlet.jar in the same folder as my java file and the javac compiler but when I compile I get the same compile errors !

Now I'm thinking I may have to change my path value in the environment variables, currently it is

c:\Documents and Settings\home\desktop\bin;x[]#

Its true I installled jdk1.4 on my desktop and it put a folder called bin there but ;x[]# is complete nonsense, or is it?

If anybody can see whats going on here it would be great, this is driving me nuts.

PS I apologise as I know similar questions to this have already been answered on this forum already but if somebody could just point out where I might be going wrong it would help a lot

[jetbrains]

Put jar files to
web-info/lib

[hugh]

Thanks for your reply jetbrains,

There are so many web-inf folders. Should there be a web-inf folder in the jdk folder somewhere. I notice that each of the following directories hold a web-inf folder

jdk\samples\jnlp\cobra
jdk\samples\jnlp\raf
jdk\samples\jnlp\webpad

do I need to create a new web-inf folder inside a new folder to hold my servlet ?

[noelob]

The web-inf folder exists in Tomcat not in the JDK. Also servlet.jar exists within Tomcat somewhere (possibly a lib folder). The reason you cannot compile your servlet is because it is not in the classpath. Find servlet.jar and then create an environment variable called CLASSPATH which has the value of the location of the jar file, e.g.
CLASSPATH=C:\Tomcat\.......\lib\servlet.jar

Kind regards,
Noel

PS you can have as many locations as you want in CLASSPATH, just seperate the entries with a : in windows or a ; in Linux.

[hugh]

Thanks noelob,

I've been looking in the jdk all along. I found a servlet-api.jar file in tomcat and pointed the CLASSPATH variable to that and hey presto my java file has finally compiled.

Thanks for your help