Java error: Only a type can be imported. XYZ resolves to a package

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I get the error: "Only a type can be imported. XYZ resolves to a package."

Someone has explained the cause here but I am not sure what I supposed to do to fix this. FYI: I am using Eclipse. I have added the code that does the importing below. The java.util.* import works fine.

 <%@ page import="java.util.*"%>
 <%@ page import="org.eresearch.knowledgeportal.model.Category"%>
 <%@ page import="org.eresearch.knowledgeportal.dao.CategoryDao"%>

 <% 
  CategoryDao catDao = new CategoryDao();
  ArrayList<Category> catList = catDao.selectCategory();

 //
 %>

Edit: the actual error is below:

 org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: 

 An error occurred at line: 7 in the generated java file
 Only a type can be imported. org.eresearch.knowledgeportal.model.Category resolves to a package
classpath tomcat jsp java
26 Answers

Got this exception as well.

Environment: Mac with Eclipse running Tomcat from inside Eclipse using Servers view.

For any reason Eclipse does not copy classes folder to WEB-INF. After classes folder was manually copied, everything works fine.

Don't know, or it is Eclipse bug or I missed something.

user_25341910

So I had the same issue and just wanted to give my solution. Maybe someone faces the same problem.

I had properly configured my artifact but somehow intellij mixed something up and deleted the WEB-INF folder in one of my artifacts.

When I viewed the contents of my .war file every class was present in the correct folder structure. So I didn't think that anything was missing. But when I check the artifacts in Intellij and compared it to a working artifact then I realized, that the WEB-INF folder with the classes and libs were not present.

Add them to the artifact and it should work.

TLDR: Intellij deleted the WEB-INF Folder in my .war artifact. Just check if yours is missing aswell. (Project Strucutre -> Artifacts)

user_70974380

The tomcat folder structure has Webapps/ROOT/ inside where the WEB-INF folder has to be present. If you place your WEB-INF inside Webapps/ tomcat is not locating the class files and jars.

user_62092970

Just adding yet another way of achieving this weird error

To me what happened is that the classpath had a few jars from tomcat by using the TOMCAT_HOME variable.

I didn't have that variable set and never needed it in over a year working in my current job. But this specific project was expecting this variable in the classpath and Eclipse wouldn't tell me there was a classpath error going on.

user_44865920

I was getting the same error and nothing was wrong with my java files and packages. Later I noticed that the folder name WEB-INF was written like this "WEB_INF". So correcting just the folder name solved the issue

user_141001230

I had this same issue when running from Eclipse. To fix the issue I went into the Configure Build Path and removed the src folder from the build path. Then closed and reopened the project. Then I added the src folder to the build path. The src folder contained the java class I was trying to access.

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