Trouble importing org.apache.commons.lang on JSP page

Question

I'm having trouble importing the org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils which gives me the error: The import org.apache.commons.lang cannot be resolved I know this question has been posted a number of times but i tried them and it didnt solve my problem.

Things i did were:

• Download the packages and add them to the WEB-INF/lib folder
• Imported but it still showed me the error
• Restarted server
• Cleaned project several times
• Closed eclipse and back on

Nothing solved my problem. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

You are using version 3 of Apache Commons Lang. The correct import is:

org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils

Note the lang3 part of the path