About Tomcat: How to use servlet-api.jar

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Sameer - 31 May 2006 08:22 GMT

Hello,
I have recently installed Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Windows 2000 OS.
How to use the file
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
5.5\common\lib\servlet-api.jar
to compile the servlets?
Please help.

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andrei.solntsev@gmail.com - 01 Jun 2006 08:34 GMT

Hi Sameer,
Usually I copy this JAR to my project.

Andrei Solntsev

> Hello,
> I have recently installed Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Windows 2000 OS.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> to compile the servlets?
> Please help.

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Juha Laiho - 01 Jun 2006 21:10 GMT

"Sameer" <dolpheen@gmail.com> said:

>I have recently installed Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Windows 2000 OS.
>How to use the file
>C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
>5.5\common\lib\servlet-api.jar
>to compile the servlets?

When compiling your servlets, have this jar on your classpath
(just like you include any other .jar files on which your code
depends). Do not include it into finished application (.war file);
it'll be provided by the application server at runtime.

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