Re: Where to copy servlet.jar?

From:

Lew <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:50:21 -0400

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Sathyaish wrote:

I have two questions in this regard. This page (http://www.apl.jhu.edu/
~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/) of the tutorial says that I need to put
two files, namely servlet.jar and jsp.jar into the CLASSPATH.

This happens automatically when you install Tomcat or another servlet container.

1. I have been able to find only servlet.jar. I do not know where to
find jsp.jar.

Install Tomcat.

2. I am not sure where I must copy the servlet.jar file. I have the
Java 1.4 SDK. I do not want to install the latest 1.6.x SDK because
many of the other tools I have to learn to use make use of the 1.4
version.

The Java 6 JVM is almost completely compatible with 1.4 code. It's the other
way around that causes trouble. You might run into difficulty with code that
uses "enum" or "assert", but you can always compile the code "javac -target
1.4" to remove that incompatibility while using Java 6.

Java 1.4 is really old. Java 5 is already almost two and a half years old. You
should upgrade.

-- Lew