Help needed on HFSJ - Attributes and Listeners example

[K Bala]

I am trying to do the Listener example in the HFSJ Chap 5 between pages 171-176.

I have created all the 3 .java files mentioned in pages 171-173.

All of them are in C:\proj\listenerTest\src\com\example folder.

I compiled the Dog class and the .class file is in the same folder as the source file. I get error when I try to compile the MyServletContextListener and ListenerTester classes.

The compiler says

java11:cannot resolve symbol
symbol: class Dog
location: class com.example.MyServletContextListener
Dog d = new Dog(dogBreed);

What am i doing wrong? Can someone pls. help?
[ December 12, 2005: Message edited by: K Bala ]

[Patrick Williams]

I don't have my book on me, but the Dog class has to be in the WEB-INF/classes directory of your test web app. If you've put a package statement in your Dog class, it needs to be in <apache home>/webapps/<web app name>/WEB-INF/classes/<package>. I hope that this helps.

[K Bala]

Thanks for responding, Patrick.

I know that I should have a copy of my .class files in the WEB-INF/classes folder in the deployment directory. But my problem was that the source files did not compile.

I went ahead and compiled the 2 .java files in my IDE and they compiled fine. I don't know why I had trouble doing the same from the command prompt.

My servlets work fine and I got the desired output as well.

[Chidanand Chauhan]

I guess class declartion problem. Please check the Access Specifier for the Dog class.If not resolved then
please send me the source code. right now i dont have the book.

[Martyn Clark]

Hi make sure the top level directory is in your classpath if it is not you will get the error you discribed. This explains why you can compile in your IDE.

[K Bala]

Thanks Martyn. I set my classpath right.