Newbie question: Servlets with Eclipse

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Thomas Hoheneder - 18 Oct 2004 21:12 GMT

Hello,

I'm quite a newbie in Java and have the following question.
I want to develop servlets with Eclipse 3.0.
My written code doesn't compile because the imported javax.servlet.* package
could not be found. It seems that there is no such package in die Eclipse
development environment. To run my servlets I have Tomcat 5.0 and for that I
have configured a CLASSPATH=C:\tomcat\common\lib\servlet-api.jar
My question is: How can I announce Eclipse my CLASSPATH or what do I have to
do that Eclipse knows my servlet-api.jar?

In another IDE (Kawa) I don't have any problems in compiling my servlets.

Any help to this would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Nice greetings from
Thomas

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Thomas Hoheneder - 18 Oct 2004 22:29 GMT

> My question is: How can I announce Eclipse my CLASSPATH or what do I have to
> do that Eclipse knows my servlet-api.jar?

Ehem... I found a document at
http://www.joller-voss.ch/tools/eclipse/EclipseTomcatStarthilfe.pdf
It explains that I need a plug-in for Eclipse... now I can in fact compile
my servlets.

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Nigel Wade - 19 Oct 2004 10:25 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> Nice greetings from
> Thomas

You need to add a Jar to the Project. These instructions are for Linux, I
have never used Eclipse on Windows but I suspect it's almost identical.

Make sure that the project in question is displayed in the "Package
Explorer" or "Packages" windows. Right-click on the project and select
"Properties" from the menu (at the bottom). In the dialog box select "Java
Build Path" in the left pane and the "Libraries" tab in the right, then
click on the "Add External JARs.." button. This will pop-up a file
selection dialog box, just navigate to the servlet jar and select it.

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Thomas Hoheneder - 19 Oct 2004 11:31 GMT

> You need to add a Jar to the Project. These instructions are for Linux, I
> have never used Eclipse on Windows but I suspect it's almost identical.
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> click on the "Add External JARs.." button. This will pop-up a file
> selection dialog box, just navigate to the servlet jar and select it.

Thank you very much. This is a good hint with less effort than the way
described in the docu I have found.
In Windows it's exactly as you described for Linux. I will do it that way in
future.

Nice greetings from
Thomas

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Newbie question: Servlets with Eclipse

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