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Eclipse Cookbook
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Eclipse Cookbook

by Steve Holzner
June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 38m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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4.11. Using .jar and .class Files

Problem

You need to access code in a .jar or .class file in your project, but Eclipse can’t find these files.

Solution

Select the project in the Package Explorer, and then select Project Properties to open the Properties dialog. Click the Libraries tab in this dialog, click Add External JARs for .jar files or Add Class Folder for .class files, navigate to the .jar file or to the folder containing .class files, and click OK.

Discussion

Often you need other code in the build path, such as .class or .jar files. For instance, say you’re developing a Java servlet, as shown in Example 4-3.

Example 4-3. A simple servlet

package org.cookbook.ch04;

import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class ServletExample extends HttpServlet {

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response)
        throws IOException, ServletException
    {
        response.setContentType("text/html");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter( );
        out.println("<HTML>");
        out.println("<HEAD>");
        out.println("<TITLE>");
        out.println("Using Servlets");
        out.println("</TITLE>");
        out.println("</HEAD>");
        out.println("Using Servlets");
        out.println("</BODY>");
        out.println("</HTML>");
    }
}

A lot of the support for servlets is in servlet.jar. Eclipse can’t find servlet.jar by itself, so a lot of wavy red lines will appear when it comes to the imports, as shown as in Figure 4-17.

Figure 4-17. Missing the servlet.jar file

To add servlet.jar to the build path, select Project ...

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