SimpleTagSupport cannot be resolved to a type

Question

I'm studying JSTL . I'm following a simple example found on the internet. I created a Class that extended SimpleTagSupport . But i get this error

  SimpleTagSupport cannot be resolved to a type

I have Tomcat 7 , Java 1.7 System Library and i added as external jars 'servlet-api.jar'

What did i miss? Thank you

Answer 1

For anyone else that find this question, another possible problem is caused by your eclipse .classpath file. I needed to change this:

<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.macosx.MacOSXType/Java SE 7 [1.7.0_51]">
    <attributes>
        <attribute name="owner.project.facets" value="java"/>
    </attributes>
</classpathentry>

to this:

<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>