A common misunderstanding among starters is that they think that the call of a forward(), sendRedirect(), or sendError() would magically exit and “jump” out of the method block, hereby ignoring the remnant of the code. For example: This is thus actually not true. They do certainly not behave differently than any other Java methods (expect … Read more
The mentioned package/classes are not present in the compiletime classpath. Basically, Java has no idea what you’re talking about when you say to import this and that. It can’t find them in the classpath. It’s part of Apache Commons FileUpload. Just download the JAR and drop it in /WEB-INF/lib folder of the webapp project and … Read more
The Servlet 2.4 specification says this about WEB-INF (page 70): A special directory exists within the application hierarchy named WEB-INF. This directory contains all things related to the application that aren’t in the document root of the application. The WEB-INF node is not part of the public document tree of the application. No file contained in the WEB-INF directory may be served directly … Read more
Have you copied classes12.jar in lib folder of your web application and set the classpath in eclipse. Right-click project in Package explorer Build path -> Add external archives… Select your ojdbc6.jar archive Press OK Or Go through this link and read and do carefully. The library should be now referenced in the “Referenced Librairies” under the Package … Read more
This is the default response of the default implementation of HttpServlet#doXxx() method (doGet(), doPost(), doHead(), doPut(), etc). This means that when the doXxx() method is not properly being @Overriden in your servlet class, or when it is explicitly being called via super, then you will face a HTTP 405 “Method not allowed” error. So, you … Read more