HI everyone
i am using tomcat Apache Tomcat/5.5.15
when i have compiled my testservlet file i got the following error message
[root@localhost classes]# javac TestingServlet.java
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1. ERROR in TestingServlet.java
 (at line 1)
        import javax.servlet.*;
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The import javax.servlet cannot be resolved
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2. ERROR in TestingServlet.java
 (at line 2)
        import javax.servlet.http.*;
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The import javax.servlet cannot be resolved
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3. ERROR in TestingServlet.java
 (at line 6)
        public class TestingServlet extends HttpServlet {
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^
HttpServlet cannot be resolved to a type
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4. ERROR in TestingServlet.java
 (at line 8)
        public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
HttpServletRequest cannot be resolved to a type
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5. ERROR in TestingServlet.java
 (at line 9)
        HttpServletResponse response)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
HttpServletResponse cannot be resolved to a type
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6. ERROR in TestingServlet.java
 (at line 10)
        throws ServletException, IOException {
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ServletException cannot be resolved to a type
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6 problems (6 errors)[root@localhost classes]#


I found in one of the threads that BY SETTING THE CLASSPATH VARIABLE IT CAN BE RESOLVED

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I read i a book that JAVA_HOME variuable also should be assigned a value i.e the poath where java is installed

Please explain me about setting the variable JAVA_HOME,CLASSPATH....etc[IF ANY] in detail

Bye

Add servlet.jar file to your class path