package javax.servlet does not exist

**Mohis88** · February 4th, 2009, 12:06 PM

Im trying to compile a java servlet but am getting the error:

Code:

package javax.servlet does not exist 

import javax.servlet.*;
^

i am getting the same error for javax.servlet.http.

This is my java file:

Code:

import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class MyHelloWorld extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
{
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Hello World!</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<h1>Hello World!</h1>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
}
}

I have set my classpath as:
CLASSPATH: C:\Program Files (x86)\apache-tomcat-6.0.2\lib\servlet-api.jar

but still i am getting the same error. Does anybody know how can i resolve the problem?

**dlorde** · February 4th, 2009, 02:41 PM

You just have to make sure the jar containing those classes is on the classpath.

Are you sure you have the name and classpath correct? Often, the servlet API jars will have a version number in the file name, such as: servletapi-2.4.jar.

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Anonymous

**Antriksh07** · December 6th, 2011, 06:19 AM

Even i am getting the same error. you can try below solution -

give the path of the directory of your written java file---> then compile javac -classpath c:/tomcat/server/servlet-api.jar(your working directory for servlet-api.jar) Helloservlet.java(file name)

it's working fine for me.

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