Where in the he$$ is javax.servlet.jar???

[frodo_20]

I did a FULL search on my machine and I can't find javax.servlet.jar. I have installed JDK1.4, JBOSS, Ant and tutorials and NONE of them put that file on my machine. JBOSS won't build without it.

WHERE ON EARTH DO I GET IT

I even imagined Microsoft removing all references to it from the entire web to foil me :-)

[robisz]

I have it in JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/lib dir. (JBOSS 4.0)

[frodo_20]

I installed the 3.2.6 version and I am finding it unbelievable that javax.servlet.jar was not included. Can I get that package by itself somewhere? I wanted to spend this weekend in JSP immersion therapy.
Seriously I wanted to go through the tutorials.

Any suggestions welcome.

Cheers

[darranl]

Have you searched the forums for information on this? I don't have all of the JBoss versions available to check but I know this jar has in the past been renamed / moved, I think this has been discusses in the Getting started guide forum.

Are you sure that you are using the correct version of the tutorial for your JBoss version?

[starksm64]

server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/servlet-api.jar

[frodo_20]

Thanks for the responses. I got the javax.servlet.jar file put it into each of the server conf lib dirs and voila I was able to compile immediately! I am using the suggested sources from the Getting Started with JBoss
J2EE applications on the JBoss 3.2.x Server PDF. Even if I change to use the servlet-api.jar won't I have to go in and change all of the import statements that refer to javax.servlet.jar in the source code. Forgive me if that is a dumb question I am a newbie.

Thanks

[darranl]

The name of a jar file has nothing to do with the packages of the classes it contains so you will not need to update any import statements.

[frodo_20]

OK. Thanks for the help. I put servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar into the jboss-3.2.6/server/default/lib directory AND changed the content of the following tags in the jboss-build.xml file like so (I have removed the less than and greater than symbols from the XML):

property name="myservlet.jar" value="${jboss.server}/lib/servlet-api.jar"
property name="myjsp.jar" value="${jboss.server}/lib/jsp-api.jar"

and this section like so.

path id="build.classpath"
path refid="client.classpath"
pathelement location="${myservlet.jar}"
pathelement location="${myjsp.jar}"
path

And everything compiled fine. So is the file javax.servlet.jar kind of deprecated or something? It seems to have contained everything from the other two jars.

Thanks again.

[frodo_20]

I also noticed that the name "servlet.jar" seems to be reserved (by ant) or something because when I tried to re-assign the path to servlet-api.jar it (the property named "servlet.jar") kept echoing as javax.servlet.jar until I changed the name of the property to "myservlet.jar". Am I nuts or is this old news.

[luc.texier]

in build.properties, update as follows

servlet.jar=${jboss.deploy.dir}/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/servlet-api.jar
jsp.jar=${jboss.deploy.dir}/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/jsp-api.jar


in jboss-build.xml, update as follows
<!--
| The build classpath
-->






Don't move libs around.

[frodo_20]

I will take your advice. Thanks to all of you for sharing your expertise.

Cheers