Check your environment variables.
CATALINA_HOME c:\tomcat or wherever you installed tomcat
Seem you have this set properly
CLASSPATH
c:\j2sdk1.4.2_03;c:\tomcat\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;c:\tomcat\common\lib\j
sp-api.jar;c:\tomcat\common\lib\tools.jar;.
There are different ways to do this but i
If other applications (using other packages) compile correctly, then your
classpath is correct and the problem then is that you don't have installed
the servlet jar, or it is in the wrong place, which is
$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/
The file I have is: servlet-2_3-fcs-classfiles.jar. I guess there