A couple Servlet Questions

I am starting to get into Servlet's, I hear they're a very useful tool in web development but I have a couple questions, maybe one of you will know the answers...

1) Does anybody have the Servlet's actually installed and working on their computer? If so, how? I Downloaded the JSWDK from Sun's website... it's for Serlvet and JSP classes, I unzipped it and installed it on my computer.. I think I set the class path correct but wonder what others may have set the Class Path to. The problem is... whenever I use JBuilder or try to compile something, I get class Servlet cannot be found of the import.javax.servlet in red (JBuilder).

2)Servlet's seem similar to Perl/CGI, PHP and the other server scripting languages. what's the difference that sets Servlet's appart??

Thanks for any feedback.

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I just installed GefIon LiteWebServer and am having the same problem. My web server runs bu then when I write my Java code I get the same error.

If you really need a fast answer i would post here. http://forum.java.sun.com/
Put a couple of duke dollars on it and you will get multiple responses. I post here because i like this site but the flow of the java fourm is a little slow.

I found I was having problems with my classpath. It's looking for servlet.jar. In my case the servlet.jar file is located in the lib directory of my servelet engine(LiteWebServer). I'm also using a book Servlets and Java Server Pages. The book is online at http://www.coreservlets.com. I have not tried using tomcat. LiteWebServer is a small webserver derived from tomcat.:p

Hey all,

Its good to be back...Its been hell last few weeks. I actually used jswdk from the sun site. My path i have it on my autoexec.bat file is as follows:

set CLASSPATH=.;c:\jswdk-1.0\servlet.jar;c:\jswdk-1.0\lib\jspengine.jar;c:\jdk1.2\lib\tools.jar;jsdk2.0\lib\jsdk.jar;%CLASSPATH%


some of it is extra stuff...and i used javawebserver2.0...

I know its not better than tomcat/apache servers, but it is good for testing purposes.


this should work...hey dilenger...i am back to check this site more frequently. how u been?

Later,

Manoj