Javac not working at coreservlets

I compile my HelloServlet3.java and ServletUtilities.java fine in other directory, but it will not compile in this directory:
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/coreservlets

It gave me this error:
[root@localhost coreservlets]# javac HelloServlet3.java
HelloServlet3.java:23: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : variable ServletUtilities
location: class coreservlets.HelloServlet3
out.println(ServletUtilities.headWithTitle(title) +
^
1 error

It is not the code error because it works on other directory.

are you importing anything into that class that does not reside in that directory?

both HelloServlet3.java and ServletUtilities.java are in the same diretory,


HelloServlet3.java =>
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

ServletUtilities.java =>
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

The error saying HelloServlet3 doesn't know where the method ServletUtilities.headWithTitle("string") . So, it doesn't know where the ServletUtilities.class is to.

my CLASSPATH conatins the . (current dir)

If you're compiling directly from the directory that contains those two files, then it will have problems because they are declared to be in a package called coreservlets, so it will look for them in a subdirectory called coreservlets. So you should compile from the directory that contains the coreservlets subdirectory (the root source directory).

shmoove