Package javax.servlet, javax.servlet.http does not exist?

Question

I'm trying to compile a servlet and it keeps telling me javax.servlet does not exist.
Though I set the classpath correctly
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/itZkNymvvP5P74MAcL7RP2Jmg-yBcUuJ4nH6LzsiQRxksPaWcnK2qMSlmVCges7Ilw=w1600
that should be a photo of what it looks like now
Here is my full classpath
Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_13\bin;
C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.35\common\
lib\servlet-api.jar;c:\.

Answer 1

The servlet-api.jar file is part of the Java Servlet runtime environmnet for Tomcat - it's not a developer library it's intended for compiled Java code to be used at run-time.



In your question you said "Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_13\bin" was in your path variable, that means you must be using Java SE because the latest version of Java EE is version 6 update 4. There is no version 1.7 of Java EE.



Servlet is part of the Java EE JDK it is not included in the Java SE JDK. Are you sure you installed the Java EE JDK? This one [1]



Edit: Well then with all due respect to your teacher he must be an idiot or a troll.



You can view the Java API documentation for Java SE here [2] you will find there is no javax.servlet package in Java SE. If you view the Java API documentation for Java EE here [3] you will see the javax.servlet package [4]



Any Java SE program referencing the javax.servlet package will fail to compile because the package does not exist in SE.

Answer 2

Gotta be a class path issue (sorry, don't trust the site so didn't review the link). I've run into this before in an IDE where the context aware editor would pick it up for code entry but compilation wouldn't be aware of it. Take a look at some of the help documents for your IDE or check that the classpath (if using command line or a build environment like Ant, Maven, etc...) includes the jar libs correctly.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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