Question

this is my first time trying to use java for backend web systems.

I have been reading up some guides on how to do this, and thus far i understand the following points:

1. I am not allowed to import .java files, but rather, import the class files.
2. <%@ page language=”java” import=”somefile.*”%> this is how i import a package.
3. After importing a package, I am required to create an instance of the class.

However, I am confused with a few things.

I now have a Dynamic Web Project, developing in Eclipse IDE and using TomCat7.0 apache.

I have a directory
Java_Resources/src/somepackage/

and some .java files in the above directory.

Question 1, in Eclipse, when I run these files, they are automatically compiled. Where does these class files go?

Question 2, when I run the following code, I recieved some errors. What am I doing wrong? Is it because I do not have my class files in the right directory?

<%@ page language="java" import="twitter.*"%>

<%
    JavaFile jf = new Javafile();

    String result = jf.searchTweets("someString");
    System.out.println(result);
%>

Error report:

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /hello.jsp at line 10

7: <%@ page language="java" import="twitter.*"%>
8: 
9: <%
10:     Javafile jf = new JavaFile();
11:     
12:     String result = jf.searchTweets("someString");
13:     System.out.println(result);

Thank you for your time and effort.

note: I have read the following links, but they do not seem to provide a solution on how to write your own .java files and import these classes into your jsp files.

http://www.jsptut.com/

How do you import classes in JSP?

http://www.coderanch.com/t/288534/JSP/java/importing-class-file-jsp

EDIT: I found my own answer.

This is my original directory

As you can see, my WEB-INF/lib is empty.

All that was required to do, is to move the relevant .jar files into this directory.

Note: I have already imported the relevant .jar files to the Eclipse project, but it seems that I need to move them into WEB-INF/lib on top of importing them into the project.

Thank you to all that helped answer my question.

This is my final directory image

Answer 1

Only classes may be imported into a .java file, and a JSP “compiles” to a .java file, so this requirement holds for JSP files too.

From a quick glance at the API, it seems that your import is formatted correctly; but, you are importing the wrong namespace. The javadoc for the twitter4j API indicates that you should be importing “twitter4j” namespaces, not “twitter” namespaces.